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Wanted to run this by everyone.
I have 4 email accounts. All 4 are accessed with Outlook 2000. I get very little spam on any of them. I use Panda Platinum AV. In the last 3 years I have only recieved 1 virus. (And it was "caught" by AVG)
In the last 4 days I've recieved 3 new viruses.
1 - W32/Bugbear.B
2 - W32/Mydoom.A.worm (1 in a "readme.zip" and 1 in a .scr)
Panda caught them all.
All were on the same account.....my work account.
Is this an indication of an overall "flood" of viruses?
I can't determine the origin of the emails but it leads me to believe that I'm on someones address book that is infected.
Any thoughts?
Please beware..........
brad

Since I've posted I've received another: W32/Mydoom.A.worm in .pif (And Panda caught it)
Got me wondering.......
brad

In the last 2 days I have recieved well over 4000 notifications of viruses stripped at work. Not to me, but to people in our organization. I am so happy someone finally listened to me and purchased an email virus scanner. I can only imagine those that haven't are currently pulling the remaining hairs from their heads.

yeah, well, i had a virus scanner on my outlook email account and it didnt find one virus one time, which is why i have a new comp, it blew my freakin memory, dont know how but it did, it was in a simple jpeg file and i thought it was a buddys pic but geuss not. be carefull of the scanner you choose

I would say you're right that its due to the overall flood of the two mentioned viruses.

I do know that the W32.Novarg.A@mm virus was in the wild at least 6 hours before most vendors updated their dat files.

At work I happened to catch one coming in and disabled all zip files from making through our gateway. Once the dat files were updated, I allowed zips once again.

Like PCGuy said - ive gotten a huge amount of them - mostly the source trying to send to names like joe@companyname.com - our alias standard is firstname.lastname@companyname.com, so they all bounce.

i havent gotten it in my emails yet but my antivirus spam jumped by a longshot......

Thanks, all.
Just was supprised to start getting them after such a long time of "no Viruses".
NaTaS....I really like your idea on the address. If I could only get them all to relent to new addy's.....
brad