[gui-talk] checking virus news or hoax

[Joel Deutsch]

chris,

you're right. As I realized a little while ago. Hitting self in forehead.
Joel

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Hallsworth" <christopherhallsworth71 at googlemail.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] checking virus news or hoax


I think it's www.snopes.com?

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Chris Hallsworth
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "GUI-Talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 2:31 AM
Subject: [gui-talk] checking virus news or hoax


>I completely forgot where it was I used to go to look up information about
>a
> virus warning I'd receive that was circulating in email, most of which
> turn
> out to be unfounded no matter how many real virus threats there are every
> day online. As many of you know, most of the warnings are hoaxes, which
> just
> complicates it all.
>
> now, I thought the place I used to go was kasparsky.com, and I could swear
> that's how it was spelled, by when I type that into my IE address bar I'm
> given something that sounds similar but is spelled differently. Also
> having
> to do with spyware and antivirus software, but I never heard of it.
>
> So then I typed urbanlegends.com into the address bar, because that was
> the
> original site I used to go, and I think they were absorbed into Kasparsky
> or
> something.
>
> Well, that just gives me a Web page with links to stuff about ghosts and
> vampires.
>
> I give up. Where does an informed person go to check out a virus warning?
> I
> think I'm having memory lapses or something.
>
> thanks for the help.
>
> Oh, for anyone who's curious, the warning I just received from a friend
> said
> that the virus has just been released last Saturday, that it was in the
> email message itself (don't click open the message," it said, and that the
> subject line  e of the email is, let me look again, okay. Mail server
> report. Note I didn't say it was a file attachment. it's just an email,
> and
> this is what it's called, as the warning says. Which already sounds bogus,
> because if someone knowledgeable and serious had composed that warning, it
> would say that the *subject line* said whatever. And it would probably
> mention that this was a pretty innovative virus because it was designed to
> activate just by having the email opened. Boy, would that be rare, as far
> as
> I know.
>
> Also, it says that there is no defense against it. Not that software
> security people are still working on it. No. It has no solution at all.
> That, too, is an odd and suspicious thing to say.
>
> Anyway, the subject line is supposed to be mail server report.
>
> Now where do I go to look into this?
>
> thanks.
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>
>
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