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Is there a computer doctor in the house?  [message #1351] Wed, 06 March 2002 14:23 Go to next message
Steve is currently offline  Steve

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Registered: November 2006
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Hi people. I haven't visited this board for a couple of days because I have flu. I seem to be winning now, though.

Over the past few days I have been receiving e-mails from people I don't know and which do not contain an attachment. Each one is about 115-120Kb. When opened they automatically play a media file, music to be specific. I have never heard what is in the _IMV files because I delete them before they get to be played. (I suffer from virochondria Smile)

My questions:

Has anyone else received files like these?

Can a midi file or other wmf's be vicious?
Re: Is there a computer doctor in the house?  [message #1353 is a reply to message #1351] Wed, 06 March 2002 16:12 Go to previous messageGo to next message
trevor is currently offline  trevor

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Registered: November 2002
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Does sound like a worm virus. I have seen cases where the attachment LOOKED like one type of file (e.g. wmf) but was actually another type (e.g. .PIF) due to a "second" file extension.

Try looking at one of the web sites (e.g. http://www.symantic.com or mcafee) using their virus definition database for the symptoms or names of the file attachments. I've had good luck actually removing some viruses from systems by using their procedures even without the customer having their software.

Good luck - no need to e-mail me a "thank you" - PLEASE! Smile
Re: Is there a computer doctor in the house?  [message #1355 is a reply to message #1351] Wed, 06 March 2002 19:18 Go to previous message
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If they play music like this then there *has* to be an
attachment of some sort.

It rather depends on your email 'viewer' how to stop this
behaviour. If you use Outlook Express then I would
recomend getting the security patches from Microsoft, and
setting it to the most 'restrictive' settings possible.

A lot of these sort of emails *do* have a payload other
than the obvious one - the trick is persuading your
email 'viewer' to show you these.
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