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"maximus" <> wrote in
news:GnIVc.390$:

> every day i receive a number of e-mails with
> attachments containing the following threats.
> W32.Netsky.P@mm!enc
> I have ran norton anti virus several times but cant
> find the worm on my system can i asume the threat is
> external is could there be something within my
> system e-mailing myself
>

The source is external. Somebody who has your emailadress in its mailbox is
infected, and sends you several mails a day.

Sending an email to yourself is possible, but useless from the virus' point
of view. The computer is already infected, so why trying to reinfect and
alarming the owner?

every day i receive a number of e-mails with attachments containing the following threats.
W32.Netsky.P@mm!enc
I have ran norton anti virus several times but cant find the worm on my system can i asume the threat is external is could there be something within my system e-mailing myself

maximus wrote:
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

> ------=_NextPart_000_0008_01C48785.61EF9D70
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

> every day i receive a number of e-mails with =
> attachments containing the following threats.
> W32.Netsky.P@mm!enc
> I have ran norton anti virus several times but cant =
> find the worm on my system can i asume the threat is external is could =
> there be something within my system e-mailing myself=20


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maximus wrote:
> every day i receive a number of e-mails with
> attachments containing the following threats.
> W32.Netsky.P@mm!enc
> I have ran norton anti virus several times but cant
> find the worm on my system can i asume the threat is external is
> could there be something within my system e-mailing myself

One of your friends must have the virus. Netsky.P scans the infected
computer for e-mail addresses in a number a places and then sends itself to
every e-mail found. This is how the worm speads. You are probably not
infected unless your AV program was disabled when you opened one of them.

Also, this is a text only newsgroup. Next time you post here, post in plain
text.

try downloading the latest version of AVAST virus and trojan and worm
detector and cleaner which is free and can be found at
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_cleaner.html
(click on the blue arrow at the bottom of the page)

"The Prophecy" <> wrote in message
news:F7MVc.41496$X12.34364@edtnps84...
> maximus wrote:
> > every day i receive a number of e-mails with
> > attachments containing the following threats.
> > W32.Netsky.P@mm!enc
> > I have ran norton anti virus several times but cant
> > find the worm on my system can i asume the threat is external is
> > could there be something within my system e-mailing myself
>
> One of your friends must have the virus. Netsky.P scans the infected
> computer for e-mail addresses in a number a places and then sends itself
to
> every e-mail found. This is how the worm speads. You are probably not
> infected unless your AV program was disabled when you opened one of them.
>
> Also, this is a text only newsgroup. Next time you post here, post in
plain
> text.
>
>