Great comment mike. I notice you have nothing
constructive to add on how to stop it.
I don't see you coming up with a solution? I mean, how can anyone track down
every single person who has a pc and this virus? Simply put, all internet
providers are struggling with this virus right now.
The problem here is that the virus is a simple stand alone program that when
YOU RUN it, it grabs any email address it can find in your email folders on
your pc (that includes newsgroups folders too!). It then send sends out a
bunch of emails with the same attachment to all those people it found.
Fact, is, it is a program that people are running, and they should not be
running this program. If you can come with a away to stop people from
running programs on their computer, then you will certainly be a hero.
Unfortunately, this program has it's own pop3 email client built in. In
fact, users are running this program, and it does what the designer of that
program told it to. Unfortunately, this is how computers work. Simply put,
people are gullible, and should not run any attached ever sent to them.
Further, this virus HIDES and fakes the person who just sent the email. So,
if for example, YOUR COMPUTER might be running this virus right now, and
sending out emails. Worse, is that those emails from your computer WILL NOT
HAVE YOUR email address.
So, how then can I track down the fact that you are sending out the virus?
It does not even have your email address? The only way I could possibility
find out who sent me the virus would be to contact YOUR INTERNET provider,
and then a group of technicians AT YOUR PROVIDER WOULD HAVE to search
through THEIR email logs. A time consuming job (and that assumes you know
how to even find out what provider sent the email). For example, can you
tell what internet provider I used to post this email? Can you?
Don't let your ignorance about how computers work make you look like a fool
on this issue. There is not a easy solution, except education of users.
Perhaps like cars, people should have to have a license to use a computer,
and then when they run stupid attachments, they should loose their license.
The other solution is not have the computer run programs, but unfortunately
that is what they do!
The solution is to use caution when you receive a attachment. The additional
solution is to make sure your virus software is up to date also.
While in the past programs like Outlook have been blamed for lack of
security, this time around it is the simply fact of a program running, and
it don't care what email client you have. In fact, even on web based email
computers, it can still infect the computer.
