Verizon.net.do users!!!!

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BushBaby

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I have just done a quich search through recent posts & didn't see any reference to Verizon & viruses, so am posting as below. Sorry for the duplication if you have already seen it elswhere & I missed it.

To all of you using the verizon.net.do ISP please be aware of a number of virus messages being put out in their name!!

I have received 4 (FOUR) e-mails in the last 3 hours from a mixture of Service@verizon, Administrator@verizon each telling me of problems with my account at verizon. They are fairly easy to detect because the sender has made a couple of basic mistakes :
1) they are trying to be helpful ( VERIZON?? HELPFUL???????)
2) they are trying to look ahead at problems (Ditto above)
3) they are in ENGLISH!!!!!! Whoever heard of Verizon.net.do sending e-mail advices in ENGLISH???

So, take care with any/all verizon.net.do e-mails you open up for the next couple of weeks please & run a virus check/scan constantly!! ~ GWB.
 
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rellosk said:
Is it a virus or just someone phishing?
Click to expand...

On advice from Verizon hotline in Santo Domingo (who already knew of this when I phoned them to advise) I just got rid of it immediately - didn't open, didn't look at it & CERTAINLY did not open the attachment where they said all the information was. Norton came up with a virus announcement & deleted at the same time. As the Boss Says .......... "Damage Control" ..... & it WENT!!! ~ Grahame.
 
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Reference Bushbaby's post----

For the past 3 weeks I have been innundated with many, many messages with a dot-pt ending. All are disguised as official communications from Dutch, German and Polish (or Russians). I don't have any idea of what the messages were about because I immediately deleted them. They have slowed down a bit over the past few days, but there for a while they numbered about 2025 per day.

Texas Bill
 
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as a rule of thumb, don't Ever open any email containing an attachment from anyone you don't know, 'cause that's where your jack-in-the-box could spring out from. It helps to have an antivirus program watching your hard drive if you're on Windows and you value your HD info.
 
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There is info on this on www.verizon.net.do and the problems they have had with what Bushbaby posted.
They also suggest you mark the " My server requires authentication" in your Outlook. ( Tools, accounts, mark account and chose "properties", chose "servers" and mark the "My server requires..." and OK.)

Also good to use a firewall and anitvirus of course!
But I get less now, don?t know if it because it actually is less crap sent now or if the advices on Verizons website helped.
 
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