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Originally posted by Resnick ok now my email is getting crazy spammed, i am getting 2-3 emails every single day from "Microsoft Corporation Security Section" about a 'newest net security update' with an attachment file to install. im guessing its pure bs/virus, also i get undelievered mail to some random address from a random user, this also comes with an attachment (my virus scanner picks this up as a virus) this is in my u of t email account and has just recently started spamming me ( i dont use my uoft account to sign up for ANYTHING) so i dunno why all of a sudden this is happening someone plz help!! this is like 6-7 emails a day im getting and its REALLY annoying, and this may be part of the reason i just had to format

ughhh spam from a uoft email...you better tell them

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Originally posted by Resnick ok now my email is getting crazy spammed, i am getting 2-3 emails every single day from "Microsoft Corporation Security Section" about a 'newest net security update' with an attachment file to install. im guessing its pure bs/virus, also i get undelievered mail to some random address from a random user, this also comes with an attachment (my virus scanner picks this up as a virus) this is in my u of t email account and has just recently started spamming me ( i dont use my uoft account to sign up for ANYTHING) so i dunno why all of a sudden this is happening someone plz help!! this is like 6-7 emails a day im getting and its REALLY annoying, and this may be part of the reason i just had to format

You are correct in thinking that these emails are due to a new virus. The reason you're getting these is because someone who uses Microsoft Outlook has either sent email to or received email from your UofT account and has subsequently been infected by this virus.

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Originally posted by las3rjock You are correct in thinking that these emails are due to a new virus. The reason you're getting these is because someone who uses Microsoft Outlook has either sent email to or received email from your UofT account and has subsequently been infected by this virus.

thanks for the help, do u know how to get rid of this tho?

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Originally posted by Hami This is all I got to say

Hell yeah!!!

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1) Get Norton Antivirus
2) Update virus definitions
3) Reboot in safemode, scan / remove virus
4) Go to windows update and download all the security patches because this could probably have been avoided if you kept your system up-to-date.

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Originally posted by rahvin 1) Get Norton Antivirus 2) Update virus definitions 3) Reboot in safemode, scan / remove virus 4) Go to windows update and download all the security patches because this could probably have been avoided if you kept your system up-to-date.

ive had norton running the whole time , always updated

and my windows was updated too

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Resnick probably is not infected with the virus. People who have sent Resnick email before or to whom Resnick has sent email almost certainly are infected.

I get virus emails only very rarely, because my mail server scans for spam and viruses.

One day i'm gonna figure out how to use Linux.. but until then..

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