From: Phillip Ramirez (laswazuki_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Dec 02 2001 - 04:45:43 EST
What might have happened is the virus scanner caught it locked up
outllok trying to fight it and outlook lost
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Edwards [mailto:mje_at_foxall.com.au]
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 12:50 AM
To: ThinkPad List
Subject: Re: WARNING!!! WORM!
Michael Edwards.
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[Bruce Markowitz:]
>When you restart Outlook, it will give you a message that it did not
>shut down properly, and it will not display that last message. Just
>delete it!
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With me, it was a bit more complicated than that - but, as I said
before, the things I saw happen seem to be non-standard. I received the
e-mail, and when I moved the selection bar there, it crashed Outlook
Express.
I later received another copy from someone else, and unfortunately
I moved the selection bar onto it before all the e-mail had finished
arriving. It crashed again, interrupting the e-mail download, and I had
to spend hours with Norton Utilities correcting all the misreported
file-lengths for the e-mail files, because the crash caused these not to
be updated properly. If I had continued using the files without dealing
with this, I would have lost some of the more recent e-mails (those
beyond the quoted length of the files in a "dir" listing), and caused
lost clusters on my hard disk.
I fixed that all right, and considered myself lucky that the damage
was in effect limited only to a few hours of my time - and I was glad
once again that I understand the way F.A.T.s keep track of cluster
sequences in files, and that I know how to correct that manually.
When I went back to get my e-mail, it all came in again, including
a second copy of that second infected e-mail, because my service
provider's computer seems to assume the mail is uncollected until I've
received *all* of it, and keeps its own copy if my program crashes
before I've received the last e-mail. I should have therefore had two
copies of the second infected e-mail - but the first had disappeared,
although I had received it, and corrected the file length in the
directory listing. It's still there in the Inbox file (I saw it there
while examining the file in Norton Utilities), but for some reason,
Outlook Express only recognized the presence of the second one.
Any idea what's going on here? I don't seem to be infected, but
don't feel entirely sure why things are happening the way they are.
Regards,
Michael Edwards.
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