Virus alert from HP4GU - Me Too

[Steve]

---  "secca_pk" <o_secca at ...> wrote:
>
> Hello all...
> 
> I keep getting sent e-mails from a 'sujii_dan' (or 
> suji_dan) They appear in my spam folder so I ignored 
> them.
> 
> I didn't think much of this, thinking it just random, 
> then one of the posts from this person used a post title
> from a post I made over in HP4GU as the 're:title' -- 
> so I clicked on it. Luckily my anti-virus protected me.
> 
> There is no sujii_dan (or any variation similar) that 
> is a member of HP4GU...
> 
> Not exactly sure what is going on here, it is possible
> this is all a mistake, but treat any e-mails from this
> person cautiously at the very least!
>

bboyminn:

Hi, I'm getting the emails too. I receive them in my 
on-line Yahoo Mail webmail account so they don't actually
get downloaded into my computer. They appear or claim to
have photos in them, but the file extention of the 
attachement does not match any known photo/image type, 
this was the first clue to me that these were a Virus.

It is most likley that this person (Sujii_Dan) receives 
his group emails by POP mail, in otherwords they are 
mailed directly to his computer, and worse yet, he uses 
MS-Outlook to read them. Most likely he has received a 
virus from  another source that is now using his computer
to automatically email out copies of the virus to everyone
in his Outlook Contacts folder or possible any email 
address it can find anywhere on his computer.

That is Standard Procedure for Viruses like this, the 
person sending them doesn't even know they are going out.
To the person who IS sending these email out, the first 
clue that something is going on is that several emails 
will come back as undeliverable, and the person will know
that he didn't send them out. That should be a clue to 
immediately do a Virus Scan. 

To anyone in the group who is receiving these email, 
delete them immediately. 

As to this person not appearing to be in any of our 
groups, remember you can assign a secondary email address
to receive you emails at. So, the person's Yahoo User's 
Name doesn't necessarily have to match their email 
username.

Lastly, I avoid using Microsoft Products at all costs. 
Nearly every Virus out there is specifically keyed to 
us some aspect or security flaw in Microsoft's product.
Mozilla product may not be perfect but they rarely are
affected by Viruses. You can get Mozilla Thunderbird Email
for free and it is an excellent email program. You can 
also get Firefox browser in the just released Version 2.0,
also an excellent browser which has had features like 
Tabbed Browsing for years, and that Microsoft is only now
adding.

Everytime I open Internet Explorer, I have some new 
problem; some one tries to steal my Home Page Setting or
install some new Tool Bar behind my back. Firefox and
Seamonkey suite are, for the most part, trouble free.
As to Outlook, I haven't even configured it, so It 
actually won't even start properly and that is just the
way I like it.

Steve/bboyminn