Re: MyDoom virus

From: Veronica Loell (lista_at_nakawe.se)
Date: 02/09/04


Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 23:49:09 +0100

tom martin wrote / skrev:

> I can not use my outlook express, I is caught in a loop
> and I get duplicates of the same emial from 1/31 to
> 2/2/2004 my MacAfee online viruse protection system tells
> my that outlook expreeex keeps sending me the MyDoom
> viruse and it is dedtecting it and cleaning it, only
> outlook express is affected, I can use my yahoo email and
> hotmail email with no problems, I received the alert
> about this virus and after then I deleted without opening
> all emails received from persons I did not know. My pc
> has been scanned numberous times by MacAfee and it states
> my system has no virus, and the the virus is in outlook
> express. how do I get rid of it without haveing to pay MS
> $35 or more for support service.

Try using a program such as MMM3 (http://mmm3.sf.net), it will help you
preview only the headers of the messages and you can use it to delete
the messages directly from your email server. Also see
http://nakawe.sf.net/MMM3 for some info on how to use it to
automatically get rid of some of this stuff.

- Veronica Loell



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