watch your email CAREFULLFollow

recently, i was unable to log on to my acct in eq. after a about 10 days and lots of questions i was able to attain a new password.

was it hacking--sort of---i was sent an email.
something, gut feeling told me NOT to open it.Good thing to, because norton stopped me. Norton also give me a WARNING to tell me this worm had invaded me. My other antivisus program also caught it and gave me a warning of it.

YUP an email with this WORM........... W32.Beagle@mm!zip.............. it was from someone i knew.(Whether they knowing sent it--i dont knkow--or maybe they got hit by this worm--dont know that either.) this was an attachment. this worm has several variants to it.

What is it, well nortion says this:W32.Beagle@mm!zip is a detection for password-protected .zip files that carry executables belonging to the W32.Beagle@mm family of mass-mailing worms.

there is an easy method to get rid of it--if you did download and OPEN the attachment. just go to norton antivirus online and follow the links given.

i am not sure but i do feel this is what most likely accurred to prevent me from getting logged in. Game masters felt it was caused by me giving out the password (NOT) or a hacker. More LIKELY.I watch my email very carefully.

this is were web mail is nice. if you are going to use a mail client like outlook or outlook express both have the ability to 'not accept attachments' under the options security tabs.

good idea to set it so you dont have to worry about things like that getting to your system.

yes, had i openned it would have been my fault.
there is alot of people that do not know this. some people dont have firewalls, some dont have norton, or similiar programs.

this was meant for people that dont know this type of information. not everyone is computor intelligent. some are just beginners. just in the LEARNING stage.

apparently you are one of those that have own and operated a computor for years.

You don't even need to always have a virus program running, just don't open anything that would have a payload from email. I only have email configured to open the basic graphics files, in a third party program.

Everything else goes to the trash heap. No one has any reason to send you a program that executes, if it was something legit they can instead just send you the link to a legit location.

Any programs I download I check with a simple free dos virus scanner from datafellows basically in this DIR

ftp://ftp.f-prot.com/pub/dos

with the virus updates being in

ftp://ftp.f-prot.com/pub/

the easiest thing to do is simply configure your email program not to recognize any programs, so you can't execute any *.scr/*.pif/*.exe/*.doc, etc. I also don't have html enabled.

I've never got a virus in 5 years, except for the time I saved something I KNEW was a virus from and email, then when I right clicked on it to change its name from *.exe to something else I accidently double clicked I guess ;)

A program like zone alarm is good to prevent trojans from doing anything, if you ever accidently get one (that is, trojans which access the internet and give out information.) You'll see a zone alarm alarm box which asks something like, "do you want bighooters.exe to access the internet?" NO.