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by techgirl75

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I've been getting these emails with .doc and .xls attachments with extensions on end of extensions (like .pif or .com or .ink)...i know not to open because of virus threat, but i am running antivirus and I don't know any other reason but a virus that i would be gettign emails with same body text and different attachments in 15 minutes intervals all day. I checked out email header and found the mail server it was coming from and IP address. I looked up website and it was a company that does oil drilling...so I don't know what is going on, it seems to me that someone has hacked their server and is sending me files from their server...but then the 15 minutes intervals??? If anyone has a clue, please help.. i am the only one in the organization that this is happening to and i have done a complete update of antivirus and full system scan. Thanks.

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by sergey kovzik

explanation can be even more simple - virus infected their system. you can write to their webmaster or postmaster@their-company.com and explain situation. If they have phone published you can even call them and ask to speak with their network administrator :) there is other choice - to lock incoming mail from their domain in your mailerver.

by dmiles

Sound like a known worm virus that is opened by another user that has your email adress as a contact and once the virus attaches itself,it is transmitted as attachments,this is unknown to the user that opened the attachment,the virus migrates on itsown.

by techgirl75

I still have not figured this out. I have done virus scan after virusscan...nothing. I am getting these emails, identical ones now.. and my system seems to lockup on boot up or other times more often. Any other ideas. This is a windows 98 machine so i have ruled out the Code Red worm. Thanks.

by mebudman

This is the TROJ_SIRCAM.A virus. It infects a computer, then grabs a doc file or xls file attaches it self to it changes the extension to .lnk, .bat .pif ... and then mails it self out to all the addresses in the infected users address book. It also tries to find network shares to infect, all those users who share the c drive with everyone full control, you get the picture.

Do you have a virus scanner? goto www.antivirus.com (this is Trend Micros site which produces a very good scanner) they have a free online virus scanner called HouseCall, scan your computer with that. While you are there download the PC-Illin 30 day trial. The signature files get updated more often than Mcaffees.

Hope this helps.

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