I got a virus. Anyone else get this one? What's its name? Is a virus scan enough?

Factual Questions
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About 3 hours ago I checked my e-mail. 46 messages from the last time I checked, about 2 hours earlier. None of them were from anyone I knew, and some of them were pretty nasty, as if I had said something insulting. There was no text that confirmed anything, just a bunch of e-mail links, and some mention of domain names.

I called my IP. They told me that was a virus going around, which reads your address book and then sends then e-mail. They told me that I would need to go to a computer shop to get it fixed.

I called a friend of my dad’s, who is the oldest techie-mechanical nerd I know (kind of looks like the father of one of the nerds in the “Revenge of the Nerds” movie). A retired engineer who have been playing with home computers since they have had them. Well before Apple. He asked if I had a virus shield, which I do, MacAvee. He then said to run it. That should fix the problem, and that is what a computer shop would likely do as well.

I did it. I checked my e-mail again. No disturbing messages, except for the “increase your cock size to scary proportions” and “get out of debt” variety.

So I ask again all of the questions in my title. Plus, what else should I do?

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Is the subject “You’re using my old e-mail address”?

If it’s that, it’s not a virus. I’ve been getting those messages, too. It seems that someone signed up many of the e-mail addresses on the SDMB (or the TempSDMB) for some stupid mailing list, or something like that. There’s a thread about it in ATMB. I tried to unsubscribe and the message just bounced back to me. The messages seem to have stopped, though.

3

The thread you want is over here. It’s nothing to get hysterical over.

4

I’ll close this and refer everyone to the ATMB thread that evilhanz linked to.

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