[gui-talk] checking virus news or hoax

[albert griffith]

I just allow the professionals to do their jobs and trust they'll keep my
virus program up to date.  I also maintain my firewall and use a little
common sense when deciding which attachments to open. It helps to know you
can open any attachment if you've first saved it to your computer and your
antivirus program is up to date. I used to track these threats down to find
they were hoaxes most of the time.  It was fun because Snopes is a great
site to play around with.

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 9:31 PM
To: GUI-Talk
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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