(idiot) Windows viral dudes try infecting Macs...

Macaholic · Jul 27th, 2004, 06:45 PM

WITH MYDOOM! [img]graemlins/lmao.gif[/img]

http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?...40727080644828

Pretty funny that they'd try this.

james_squared · Jul 27th, 2004, 08:54 PM

Hello,

I remember receiving a similar e-mail from one of e-mail account providers. Ironically enough, at the bottom of the e-mail was a real message from the account providers stating that the e-mail had an attachment with a virus and the attachment has been removed. Some account providers are good at removing viruses, I suppose.

James

Macaholic · Jul 27th, 2004, 09:10 PM

Yeah. It looks like they're starting to scan emails as they hit their server. I'm on rogers, and over the past few weeks mail has been coming in with categories inserted in the subject of the email, like [BULK] for spam and something else for infected items. The ISP tries to clean the document with varied success. What was funny with this virus was that MYDOOM is not mac OS compatible. So, it wouldn't infect a Mac even if the user ran the program.

VertiGoGo · Jul 28th, 2004, 08:48 AM

Macaholic...I'm with Rogers as well. I'm not too sure how I feel about the whole [BULK] labelling thing yet...it's labelled some email from my Dad as bulk mail.

Do you (or does anyone else) know how to stop the [BULK] designation from being attached to messages from people I actually want to communicate with?

Just curious.

Cheers!

Macaholic · Jul 28th, 2004, 09:48 AM

No, I don't know how to disable it -- unless there's an opt-out thing with Rogers, themselves.

The mail doesn't get deleted or anything, You still get all your mail.

And folks, seems I was too hard on those "idiot Windows viral dudes". The worm itself can adapt to any domain it comes across in a person's address-book, changing the wording of the email "notification" you receive to appear as if it is coming from the ISP, itself. This, according to reader posting at macfixit. So, those virus dudes are actually pretty smart (well, that's obvious from a technological standpoint) -- but they're STILL jerks!

kloan · Jul 28th, 2004, 02:22 PM

You can actually change the settings. It took me hours to figure out what the hell was going on, and good ol Rogers didn't even bother to explain until a week later with a half-assed email that really didn't explain. Oh, and they also cut off our emails for about a week as well, but it was "my problem" not theirs..

Anyway, you can change the settings here:
http://ca.f882.mail.yahoo.com/ (i think this link will work)

PosterBoy · Jul 28th, 2004, 02:43 PM

Do you (or does anyone else) know how to stop the [BULK] designation from being attached to messages from people I actually want to communicate with?

Do change the junk filter options on Shaw accounts you have to log into the Shaw webmail interface. Same with Telus. Once logged in, the button to adjust options are right there in the menu.

I assume that Rogers is similarly set up.

Gizmo · Jul 28th, 2004, 02:43 PM

My g/f just had one of these supposedly sent from Sympatico.
She opened it on her eMac.
Fortunately it was a windows executable and nothing happened.

She showed me the email and although the wording was a bit scary, it wasn't the best constructed message and certainly one that I wouldn't expect from an organisation like sympatico.

I forwarded it to my windows buddy...

just kidding!