At 10:36 AM 8/5/2003 -0400, LBC286@aol.com wrote:
>Very interesting, but where are you getting your information? I have been on
>several team.net lists for about 4 years and have not gotten a virus on my
>computer from any source. Team.net does not allow attachments, so if you get
>e-mail from a team.net address WITH an attachment, DELETE IT!! It is
>probably a
>virus using a spoofed address. I have NEVER gotten one that way.
>
>I have never heard of a virus that is capable of turning on the power to a
>computer. Where does it get the power to do that? If you think it is
>happening, plug your computer into a surge protector with a power switch
>and flick it
>off when you turn off the computer. It sounds more like some unauthorized
>person is using your computer without your knowledge. Get a key-lock
>power switch
>and keep the key with you.
I think nolan was being sarcastic.
I can take up for him because we have (had) either the exact same virus or
a very similar one at work. it didn't use different subject lines (iirc,
it was titled 'your profile' or something similar), but it had a coworker's
address in the from: line. she didn't send it though, because she'd been
fired two weeks earlier and no one had been near her computer since (no, it
wasn't her, she's a 55 year-old grandmother that had difficulty with
windows--virii were not her stock in trade). the first time half the
office opened it instantly, thinking she'd had a hacker double life we
didn't know about. a day or two later it tried again with a different
address of a coworker that was out of town. so they definitely weren't
sending them. I suspect nolan's got his address on the same thing here.
scott
>In a message dated 8/5/03 7:01:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>npenney@mde.state.md.us writes:
>
> > Third, and this is scary, it's able to turn on the power supply to my
> > computer, boot up the computer, send the messages, turn the computer
> > back off, and throw the breaker to the off position again! That's a
> > terrifyingly powerful virus!!!
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