[W126 Coupe] Wm Rickman

[Steve Nervig]

Please note that it may or may not be Wm Rickman's computer that is sending out the virus. And it is probably NOT intentional. He or someone in his contacts list has an infected computer and it is sending out these virus messages via spybot malware unbeknownst to him. 

If you are unfortunate enough to own a Windows PC, you are vulnerable to this activity and must install and keep your virus detection software up to date. You might want to consider Malwarebytes Anti-Malware software also. If you don't do this, YOU could be sending out malware messages and not even know that your computer is doing it! 

Also, when you see an email that just has a link to some web page that you don't recognize, don't click it. Don't click on something when it is from someone that you don't know, and don't know what it is for. 

For example, this particular email sent to the MBCoups List from 'Wm Rickman' raised four flags in my mind:
1) the 'From' was someone who has not posted to the list recently (or ever), 
2) the message contained no 'Subject', 
3) the 'To'  was addressed to many recipients (none of which I knew), and 
4) the message just had an web link in the body of the message. 

Any one of those four points would tell me that there was possibly something wrong with the message. All four combined told me to NOT to click on that link. Also, there had been several similar emails from, I believe, this same 'person' over the last few months. 

Use caution or you are just inviting pain. Hope this helps.

Regards,
Steve




> Dean -  I never considered anyone from mbcoupes as a stranger but I guess I’ll have to be more careful.  I guess there are too many of these nut cases floating around.  Fortunately, everything was caught and cleaned up.

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> I may take Ronnie’s advice and switch but I will admit that Norton cleaned up “the mess”.

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> Regards,

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> Dick

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> Dick,

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> I have never had a computer virus.

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> Rule 1:  NEVER open attachments or web links from strangers.

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> also, set up ypur email client to NOT open attachments and emails in a preview window.

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> ----- Original Message -----

> Subject: [W126 Coupe] Wm Rickman

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> Hey guys,  I  just finished downloading  Norton to get rid of a virus & worm sent by the above.  If you have already received his email & attachment make sure you delete it.  I would hope that our webmaster might be able to detect this in the future but keep your eyes open.

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> Dick

> Danville, VT

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