Viruses and VBWorld

**gdebacker** · Nov 30th, 2001, 06:11 PM

I've been sending and receiving email via the internet for about 8 years. Up until about 6 weeks ago I had never been emailed a virus before. I now get about two a week or so. It seems I started getting them shortly after I became a regular contributor to VBWorld.Com. Is there a connection? Has anyone else experienced something like this after they started using this form, or have I been added to some "Virus of the week list"?

These people that send them must think I'm an idiot. I mean, who opens an attachment from someone they don't know, or at least scans it first? Not to mention, with Norton Auto-Protect enabled the viruses are detected as soon as they are Base64 decrypted.

Greg

**chrisjk** · Nov 30th, 2001, 06:14 PM

I've had 3 in the last 3 days

Completely unrelated to vbw though

**Mark Sreeves** · Nov 30th, 2001, 09:05 PM

Is it related? I'm not sure.

I got one the other day and it was sent to the address in my signature ie: mark.vbw...etc

this is the ONLY place this address is displayed I've never given that address anywhere else EVER

I use a different email address in my VB World profile

**scsa20** · Nov 30th, 2001, 09:15 PM

I never gotten a virus from VBWorld or VBForums, my last virus I got was over 3 - 6 months ago

**kovan** · Nov 30th, 2001, 09:20 PM

i like to add that i cant run a virus scanner
(keeps crashing)
so i assume there i a virus on my pc somewhere

(scanning via web now, to see if anything is detected)

**Arbiter** · Nov 30th, 2001, 09:32 PM

I eat viruses for breakfast.

No virus has infected my machine since the dawn of time....

**parksie** · Dec 1st, 2001, 08:08 AM

Originally posted by Arbiter
I eat viruses for breakfast.

No virus has infected my machine since the dawn of time....

Me neither.

Kovan - why does it crash? AVG is absolutely fine on mine and has caught everything so far.

**Pix** · Dec 1st, 2001, 08:31 AM

No problems here either

**kovan** · Dec 1st, 2001, 11:45 AM

Originally posted by parksie
Me neither.

Kovan - why does it crash? AVG is absolutely fine on mine and has caught everything so far.

well there were no viruses...
some stupid program put a directory BDE on my c:
and through XP i couldnt access it and norton was having problems too so it kept crashing (someone didnt do their error handling properly)

so i jumped into win2k and got rid of that damn dir

oh now, every time i boot to win98 SE, it just restarts the pc...
this is after i upgraded to 1.3 gig ram

**gdebacker** · Dec 1st, 2001, 02:05 PM

Originally posted by Arbiter
I eat viruses for breakfast.

No virus has infected my machine since the dawn of time....

OK, fine, but have you ever been sent one.

I'm not much of a web surfer and I don't hand out my email address to a lot of people. Aside from the reply notices I get from VBWorld 90% of my email comes from people I do business with. Most of the other sites I contribute to don't have user profiles like this site. Of the 4 email addresses I have all of the viruses have been sent to the email address I use here. Maybe there is no connection between the flood of viruses I've been getting and my time on this site, but the time I've spent here is really the only thing that has changed in my web usage recently.

Greg

**nabeels786** · Dec 1st, 2001, 03:11 PM

yeah kovan, some prog put a BDE dir on my comp too...i couldnt figure out what it was for

**thinktank2** · Dec 1st, 2001, 09:27 PM

Originally posted by nabeels786
yeah kovan, some prog put a BDE dir on my comp too...i couldnt figure out what it was for

BDE - Brilliant Digital Entertainment
http://www.brilliantdigital.com/

The program in the folder is a digital media projector for the playback of advertisements in a specific format..

Guess how it came to your system ??
With Morpheus or Kazaa

**kovan** · Dec 1st, 2001, 10:11 PM

Originally posted by thinktank2

BDE - Brilliant Digital Entertainment
http://www.brilliantdigital.com/

The program in the folder is a digital media projector for the playback of advertisements in a specific format..

Guess how it came to your system ??
With Morpheus or Kazaa

gotdamn morpheus
yes it was that

i figured it out after cus i came over my cousins and it was there too.. hehe

**mlewis** · Dec 1st, 2001, 10:12 PM

Getting emailed viruses is lame compared to cleaning them manually. I just HATE it when people install sucky virus software (*cough*Norton*cough*) and then they get a virus that says "DONT OPEN ME I AM A VIRUS" so they doubleclick it!!! The next day they call and say "I got a virus! It said not to open it so I didn't but somehow I still got it!"

OK just a little venting

People who email me viruses usually get a heckuva surprise in their inbox.

**kovan** · Dec 1st, 2001, 10:14 PM

could you do me a favour mlewis?
this stupid girl keeps sending me forwards, i sent her death threats, told her go to hell, she keeps sending
could you bomb her for me if i send her email addy?

**mlewis** · Dec 1st, 2001, 10:26 PM

NO. I will not do that.

But I can PM you some source code for a mailbomb

**kovan** · Dec 1st, 2001, 10:48 PM

hehe
thanks but i can get that as well
i think i will just tell her what i think of her and her forwards when i go back to school in Jan

**mlewis** · Dec 1st, 2001, 11:02 PM

My mailbombs really rock...sure you don't want to try one on 'er?

**gdebacker** · Dec 2nd, 2001, 10:55 AM

My mailbombs really rock...sure you don't want to try one on 'er?

Send some source my way too. I got another email virus sent to me yesterday!

Greg

**Gandalf_Grey_** · Apr 7th, 2002, 05:26 PM

Originally posted by kovan

gotdamn morpheus
yes it was that

i figured it out after cus i came over my cousins and it was there too.. hehe

hmm and now it turns out it has a trojan on it

i got the trojan off my computer by removing all the BDE dll's and exe's

**Nightwalker83** · Apr 7th, 2002, 09:20 PM

I never had that problem. Prob because I have filter in my emailed enabled.

**nishantp** · Apr 7th, 2002, 09:54 PM

Hey guys, if you're not sure about an attachment, what if you opened it in a VMware session? Its completely contained, right?

WorkHorse · Apr 7th, 2002, 11:10 PM

I just open stuff on another computer that I don't care about. What's a VMware session? Sounds interesting.

**Emo** · Apr 8th, 2002, 12:06 AM

Well I don't know about Viruses, but I've been getting a lot of porn lateley..

It's getting kinda annoying now..

-Emo

**ubunreal69** · Apr 8th, 2002, 03:26 AM

Originally posted by kovan
i like to add that i cant run a virus scanner
(keeps crashing)
so i assume there i a virus on my pc somewhere

Same here, i dont really care either.

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