I just received this message. What’s weird is that pretty much everyone I know on this board was the recipient as well. Do any of you know where it came from, did anybody else received it ? What’s (or who’s) vom.. ?
Copy of the message………………. ————————————–
Attention: [i’ve removed all personnal information]
A Virus was found in an Email message sent to you. This Email scanner intercepted it and stopped the entire message before it reached you.
The Virus was reported to be:
I-Worm.Swen
Please contact your I.T support personnel with any queries regarding this policy.
The message sent to you had the following envelope:
MAIL FROM: RCPT TO: [AGAIN, SAME INFO REMOVED]
< …. and with the following headers:
From: "Postmaster" To: "net client" Subject: Undelivered Message Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:39:1
The original message is kept in:
mail.vom.com:/var/spool/qmailscan/quarantine
where the VOM Support can further diagnose it.
The Email scanner reported the following when it scanned that message:
vom.com appears to be a small ISP in the Sonoma, California area. (in the San Francisco bay area, North)
I did not receive the email.
Did you copy/paste the text into your post? I ask because the English grammar seems a bit rough. Nothing that would raise an eyebrow in a forum post, but given your suspicion as to the origin of the message, it seems un-polished, to me.
I suppose that the ISP vom.com could, acually, have intercepted a message addressed to you which contained a virus.
This would be the first such example of this behavior of which I have ever been aware.
The only thing I did was to remove everyone’s address (Leen, Beth, Jodi, Grant, everyone was there). I put a small message enclosed in brackets [ ] instead. Could it be one of Adobe’s server ? I don’t know where there are in the USA.
That certainly is a strange message…I did not get one. Maybe you should check with the Webmaster of this site, I know a contact to him is in the Preferences settings.
I don’t know for sure, but I always assumed Adobe housed their servers in their large, newish building down the mountain from here in San Jose, California.
This morning I had a virus attack from a known worm;, I thought it is the same one that is quoted in the above message. The macafee virus library showes that the virus checks wether the puter has come online by contacting www.google.com. Chance has it that I, like presumably every one from this forum had a look at google to see how we are portrayed there in relation to the challenge. May be there is a link?
I didn’t get this, nor have I gotten notice of any virus intercepts since at least yesterday morning (when I last emptied the e-mail Trash folder.) Nothing in my Spam box on the Speakeasy site, either. ??? Ray, you’re just special!! 🙂
I’m on so many boards and forums, my e-mail address is the ideal target for every virus / spammer. But since you’re on a Mac, I wouldn’t worry too much (lucky you!)
Just ignore and delete everything that looks bogus. Anything that comes into your mail looking like somebody is trying to make something look ‘official’ is no good. Look at the expanded header, it will show that it isn’t where you think it is from. Get rid of it.
Just like telemarketing, If you don’t initiate the call, or e-mail, just delete it. With caller ID, we never answer any calls that don’t identify themselves. They never leave a message, so they prove they are Tmarketers.
Jane, have you tried answering the phone and then asking to be removed from their calling list? The State of Washington has a law that requires telemarketers to honor this request, and they can be fined if they don’t. We started doing this a couple of years ago. It was an annoyance right at first, but I doubt we’ve gotten three calls in the last year. Well… Except for the politicians, who have managed to get themselves exempted. We tried the caller ID thing, and it was still too annoying, because we still had to disrupt whatever we were doing to check the number. Getting off the list was a much better solution for us. I love the peace of not listening to the phone ring at all. 🙂
Well, it’s better than nothing, Nancy, and I signed up, but there are so many exemptions–charities, politics, any product you’ve bought in the past X months, etc. that I wonder how much good it will really do.
I signed up quite a while ago and my husband and I were just comparing notes and agreed the calls are starting to taper off…any is a blessing. We had gotten to the point of never answering our phone anymore, after our message plays, we wait to hear a voice before we pickup (telemarketers always hang up, or rather the computer does). Extremely irked by the frequency of their intruding phone calls we resorted to that practice at home…it is so wrong that we pay to have that phone for our convenience, not as an avenue to sell us something.
Yes, the few that do get thru, we did ask to be removed. All complied. Every one that calls us that don’t come thru on Caller ID, get sent to the answering machine, and they never leave a message. And they never call back. Our dog has a GREAT message, and people who don’t know us, don’t answer her.
Well, not all, our cell phone co, Cingular, which used to be Cell One, did make 3 calls to us last week. I got rather ‘creative’ and they never called back, they got the hint. Not nasty, just funny, worked great.
Humor works very effectively with the rare telemarketer who does get thru.
It’s interesting. Fortunately, I’m in a market that is too small to attract a lot of telemarketers so that wasn’t as big a problem as it used to be when I lived in Ft Lauderdale, but since the do not call list went into effect, I’ve begun getting a lot of junk fax, even though I am already on the (voluntary, alas) do not spam fax list.
Yay, Jane! We do the same thing: between caller ID and the answering machine, we don’t have to talk to telemarketers.
Of course we now get to see the dreaded "MN State Ofc" on Caller ID which tells us our library books are overdue–again. We like to read so much, we just don’t want to give them back. 🙂
Hi Lou, If we could only do this to the spammers, yeah, their time will come. But I can’t get my dog to do her ‘special message’ that she has for telemarketers, on the e-mail. She has trouble typing with her doggie paws. Jane
