Harry Porter wrote:
That'll do the trick, I'm sure.
It's a relief to know that someone doesn't have the headache of
dealing with a virus, as I originally feared.
- Harry
vp_FREE wrote:
>
> Thanks Harry, for bringing this to our attention.
> I have just now unsubscribed the following two accounts from
> vpFREE:
> accounts-vegasjokercasino.com
> promotions-vegasjokercasino.com
>
> These two accounts joined vpFREE very recently, and I too have been
> getting Emails from them, and suspected that they have some sort of
> auto responder to all received Emails. I was going to look into the
> situation when I found some spare time, and wasn't overly concerned
> because I didn't know that others were getting these responses also.
>
> Hopefully, this is a responder problem rather than a virus, and
> their unsubscription will solve the problem.
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I doubt that this would be a virus, although I suppose the answer might depend upon what your definition of a virus is. I think the autoresponder theory is the most plausible, and that is not a virus; for the unfamiliar, what would be happening there is that each time those e-mail addresses receive _any_ post whatsoever from vpFree, the autoresponder would automatically send a reply message to vpFree which would then be distributed to each and every member (that would be the spam messages). The company would have had to do a little tweaking on its system, otherwise the autoresponder addresses would once again receive the distributed message that it had just posted, and then it would respond again ... and again ... etc -- eventually crashing the whole system, but it could do this quite easily.
As for the possibility of a virus, I hope we don't see the day that commercial businesses start employing them to distribute spam; I have never heard of that being done yet.
One of our home PCs (my son's) did get the Blaster worm virus last week, but I used my other uninfected computer to downloader the removal tool, and fixed it. _MY_ computer is always up-to-date with all fixes and the lastest antivirus database. I just did a full system scan three days ago, and I'm confident that this problem was NOT the result of a virus.
Cheers.
Bill Velek