bobbi355
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posted on December 18, 2000 08:26:34 PM new
Does anyone know anything about this? I keep getting an email and it just says it's FROM: 917363840 and it has an attachment named SEICHO-NO-IC.EXE. I have not opened the attachment. I've gotten this email about 10 times now and I keep deleting it. Do ya think it's a virus?
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stockticker
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posted on December 18, 2000 08:35:39 PM new
Religious spam?
http://www.snitruth.org/
NEVER open any attachments received via e-mail.
Irene
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mybiddness
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posted on December 18, 2000 09:02:09 PM new
Whooooaahhhh!!!!!! Don't open it! Better safe than sorry. Just read my post from last week. I absent mindedly opened an attachment and ended up losing my whole hard drive... huge disaster. NOW I'M NOT OPENING NUTHIN! 
Not paranoid anywhere else but here!
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bobbi355
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posted on December 18, 2000 09:06:41 PM new
mybiddness - yes, I remember reading about that virus that you had in your email. Jeesh!! How do these weirdos get pleasure out of ruining someone's computer!! I remember one of them I got the attachment was named as some kind of screen saver. Luckily I haven't opened any of them. But it's kinda weird, because this person keeps on sending this email - can this person know that I don't open the attachment and delete the email I wonder?? So that's why he keeps sending it back?
Irene - I went to that website .... Weird! Maybe they're trying to convert me or something!!
[ edited by bobbi355 on Dec 18, 2000 09:08 PM ]
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hardoutfit
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posted on December 18, 2000 09:28:51 PM new
bobbi355 Do not open that attachment. This morning I received an email from a bidder that had the MTX virus. The same bidder sent me a second email with SEICHO-NO-IC.EXE attached. thank goodness I keep my virus software up to date. Didn't get me !!
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hardoutfit
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posted on December 18, 2000 09:33:44 PM new
IT is a second part of the MTX virus :
The worm also intercepts e-mail messages that are sent and attempts to send a duplicate message with the infected attachment to the same address (the same as "Happy99/Ska" worm does). As a result, victim address should receive two messages: first is the original message written by the sender, second is a message with empty subject and text and attached file that has one of the names that are selected by worm depending on current date:
README.TXT.pif
I_wanna_see_YOU.TXT.pif
MATRiX_Screen_Saver.SCR
LOVE_LETTER_FOR_YOU.TXT.pif
NEW_playboy_Screen_saver.SCR
BILL_GATES_PIECE.JPG.pif
TIAZINHA.JPG.pif
FEITICEIRA_NUA.JPG.pif
Geocities_Free_sites.TXT.pif
NEW_NAPSTER_site.TXT.pif
METALLICA_SONG.MP3.pif
ANTI_CIH.EXE
INTERNET_SECURITY_FORUM.DOC.pif
ALANIS_Screen_Saver.SCR
READER_DIGEST_LETTER.TXT.pif
WIN_$100_NOW.DOC.pif
IS_LINUX_GOOD_ENOUGH!.TXT.pif
QI_TEST.EXE
AVP_Updates.EXE
SEICHO-NO-IE.EXE
YOU_are_FAT!.TXT.pif
FREE_xxx_sites.TXT.pif
I_am_sorry.DOC.pif
Me_nude.AVI.pif
Sorry_about_yesterday.DOC.pif
Protect_your_credit.HTML.pif
JIMI_HMNDRIX.MP3.pif
HANSON.SCR
#*!@_WITH_DOGS.SCR
MATRiX_2_is_OUT.SCR
zipped_files.EXE
BLINK_182.MP3.pif
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mybiddness
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posted on December 18, 2000 09:41:47 PM new
I'm a peace loving person but if I could get my hands around the neck of the person that invented the MTX virus I'd go to hell for murder! What kind of a sick nut comes up with that kind of nonsense? I wonder if there is a way you can track who is sending that to you. Seems odd to me that they keep re-sending it. I'll leave that mystery to some of the computer literates around here... thankfully we have lots of them.
Not paranoid anywhere else but here!
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hardoutfit
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posted on December 18, 2000 09:48:04 PM new
The senders do not know they have it. I've emailed this bidder FOUR times warning him, no reply yet. I wonder how much email he/her send?
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hardoutfit
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posted on December 18, 2000 10:12:09 PM new
BTW bobbi355 If you are getting this email you probably already have a MTX virus on your machine, as the SEICHO-NO-IC.EXE, is the second part.
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bobbi355
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posted on December 19, 2000 07:38:05 AM new
hardoutfit - GREAT!!! I remember some of those names of screensavers that you listed -I never did open the attachment though. Do you think I could still have the virus? If I went to that Trend Housecall Virus website and ran that virus check I wonder if it would pick it up. This makes me so mad I could just scream!!!! Pretty bad when all these psychos have to do with their time is invent something to ruin someone's computer. I've noticed a few strange things like when I click on "start" and then say "favorites" it takes about 30 sec. to actually open op. And when I open a pic that I have in "my documents" it takes about 30 sec. to open it up and the same amount of time to close it. It's like it just stalls. Wow......Merry Christmas - My computer's probably ruined.
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bobbi355
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posted on December 19, 2000 07:38:59 AM new
hardoutfit - Can you recommend a good virus protection software?
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hardoutfit
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posted on December 19, 2000 11:51:01 AM new
Go to this link, if you can get through you DO NOT HAVE the MTX, as the MTX blocks an infected computer from getting to anti virus sites.
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w95.mtx.html
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bobbi355
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posted on December 19, 2000 03:16:17 PM new
Hardoutfit - Well, I got into that web site with no problems. I'll keep my fingers crossed........Thanks for all the help!
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