Hi
a couple of days ago André du Fresne and I got the mydoom virus through the mail, fortunately the antivirus stopped it by the time it reached our mailbox. The reason I know André had that e-mail is that it said it came from me and he wanted to inform me that I might be infected. But my doom uses the infect persons address book to fake the from field (i.e. it did not really come from me). Since we are both RC users and as far as I know don't have a common friend outside this site, the e-mail and virus probably came from a third RC user

If you don't have antivirus that is up to date on your PC, please take the time to follow this link
[Link: vil.nai.com]
and make sure your PC is not infected, it helps everyone

That's why I used web-based email for ALL communication with RemoteCentral.

No Outlook for me.

Lyndel

but even if it comes into your Yahoo account, if you open the attachment it will find your outlook address book and send an e-mail to all your friends :-)

I am sorry if I might have sounded preachy, at first I told André that doing anything in RC was probably more trouble than the virus. But after I saw what the current version of mydoom can do, I decided it might be worth it.

Good Email practices I follow.

0. Baseline protection
Disable Macros in both Word and Excel.
Never double click and EXE or .VBS attachment.
View .VBS first as source to see if code is
malicious.

1. Never open an attachment unless you can verify #2.

2. Once sender is verified, only open if attachment
passes virus scan plus #3

3. Keep Anti-virus signatures up to date plus #4.

4. Avoid Outlook whenever possible.

Daniel,

I am very upset about this post. The reason why is because he posted this thread in at least two different forums. I believe that this person should receive a warning. Any other double postins, he/she should be kick off of this site.

Thank you for this time in this matter.

Robert