ES - Virus Alert! This is serious!

[Laura Feldner]

I just checked my start menu (programs/startup) and all thats there is my
Norton Antivirus program scheduler so I guess I got lucky. However, I am
having a problem with one of the websites I frequently log on to. (dsds.org)
It struggles to load it for awhile then gives me the error messge
'connection with server cannot be established'. I had this same problem the
other day with the elfsea home page. Now the Elfsea page is working fine for
me. The dsds.org page worked fine earlier today from my computer at work.
But I'm have not been able to get to it from my home computer tonight.
I have tried to get to the site from my 'favorites' shortcut, by typing in
the address directly, and by 'searching' and clicking on the results. I'm
about to go see if I can find a link from another site and try that. Any
thoughts or helpful hints?
Layla

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-elfsea at ansteorra.org [mailto:owner-elfsea at ansteorra.org]On
> Behalf Of Adam Harrison
> Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 11:22 PM
> To: elfsea at ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: ES - Virus Alert! This is serious!
>
>
> Umm, depends on a couple of things.  The easiest way to know if
> you have it
> is to look at your start menu under programs/startup.  If there's a file
> called kak or kak.hta or something like that, then you're infected.
>
> The symptoms could be nothing at all, or they could be something like what
> was happening to me, which was I was getting bluescreens when windows was
> starting up, or they could be something else.  The big thing here is this
> virus shuts your computer down on the first of the month.
>
>
> If you're infected contact me, I'll help you get rid of it.
>
> In service,
> Bjorn
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Laura Feldner <layla at worldinter.net>
> To: <elfsea at ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 7:23 PM
> Subject: RE: ES - Virus Alert! This is serious!
>
>
> > Total ignorant non-geek here,
> > What are the symptoms of this virus? I have not noticed anything unusual
> > with my Outlook program. Do I need to do anything special?
> > Give it to me in non-geek speak please. Thanks!
> > Layla
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-elfsea at ansteorra.org [mailto:owner-elfsea at ansteorra.org]On
> > > Behalf Of Adam Harrison
> > > Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 4:24 PM
> > > To: elfsea at ansteorra.org
> > > Subject: Re: ES - Virus Alert! This is serious!
> > >
> > >
> > > Great info, there's just one catch...
> > >
> > > I only preview messages.  The kak virus can infect some versions
> > > of outlook
> > > if you just preview the message, which is what happened to me.
> > >
> > > Still, if you have the patch you will be alright.
> > >
> > >
> > > -Bjorn
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Daungerous (Donna R. Thompson) <daungerous at ev1.net>
> > > To: <elfsea at ansteorra.org>
> > > Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 3:06 PM
> > > Subject: Re: ES - Virus Alert! This is serious!
> > >
> > >
> > > > Thanks guys for all the info you put out.  I am a
> > > super-emailer, belong to
> > > > several lists and get about 60-70 messages a day.  I also
> use Outlook
> 5,
> > > so
> > > > I was SURE that I would have this virus.  Doing the checks, it
> > > showed that
> > > I
> > > > did not.  But, I am so paranoid about losing stuff (I have a
> > > web business,
> > > > so it would be REALLY bad) that I brought in the big guns, my
> super-geek
> > > > husband.  I wanted to know how is it possible that I don't have
> > > this virus
> > > > and he explained it to me this way:  "Previewing" a message is
> different
> > > > than "opening" a message.  In Outlook, the message is
> displayed if you
> > > > highlight it, then you read it in the "preview" mode, but if you
> double
> > > > click on the message and it opens a separate window, you have
> > > "opened" it
> > > > and will launch your hard-drive.  He told me to listen to my hard
> drive
> > > when
> > > > I did this and you can hear it start up.  I only relay this
> > > info because I
> > > > was concerned I would have the virus and not know it (even with
> > > the links
> > > > provided, I didn't trust myself to do it right) because I am only a
> > > > "geek-in-training".  He also said that this only a possible
> explanation,
> > > > some viruses load from "preview" mode and others load from
> > > "open" mode and
> > > > some do both.  I just needed a reasonable explanation of
> why I wasn't
> > > > infected and thought others might also.  Needless to say, I got
> > > the patch
> > > > downloaded.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks again,
> > > >
> > > > Daungerous
> > > > Pretty is as pretty does.
> > > > http://www.desertdancer.com
> > > >
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