# New virus coming out - W32/Badtrans - is irritating me **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 27, 2001, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-virus-coming-out-w32-badtrans-is-irritating-me/95435 "2001-11-27T03:16:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-virus-coming-out-w32-badtrans-is-irritating-me/95435/1 "2001-11-27T03:16:30Z")
[http://www.mcafee.com/anti-virus/viruses/badtrans/default.asp?cid=2607](http://www.mcafee.com/anti-virus/viruses/badtrans/default.asp?cid=2607) I have a Macintosh, so I feel (relatively) protected from viruses. But it doesn’t stop the damned emails from coming. Lately (like the last 3 or 4 days) I get these emails from people I don’t know, with some sort of attachment, but nothing in the email. The subject says “Re:”, and all I see in the email body is (what looks like) a blank little box. Like something wanted to show up there, but Outlook Express didn’t know how to display the attachment. I opened up “all headers”, and found a huge string of nonsensical text, but buried in there was the phrase “Sorry about yesterday”, which makes me think that indeed, it was a virus. (Since “sorry\_about\_yesterday” was one of the phrases mentioned in the McAfee page.) Anyone else getting this? What does it look like on a PC? I don’t feel like opening up any mail on my PC now, because who needs the grief? It’s weird how all of a sudden I am getting all these emails. ---
**Author:** ![bare](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bare/32/471_2.png) [@bare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bare)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-virus-coming-out-w32-badtrans-is-irritating-me/95435/2 "2001-11-27T09:07:14Z")
It’s the first worm or virus I’ve ever had! Bet not many folks can claim that. (guess I are somebody now) Fortunately Norton caught it. My e-mail came from an out of town client that I spoke to earlier this evening. I hope they weren’t trying to send anything important. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-virus-coming-out-w32-badtrans-is-irritating-me/95435/3 "2001-11-27T13:22:55Z")
I got this the other night. The sender was a “mperky”, someone I’ve never heard of (and it was to my super-secret real home email addy, so odds are it wasn’t this place or other hangouts). I’ve got Norton AV running, so when Outlook downloads a message it actually downloads it to Norton for a scan. Norton picked it up and warned me about it, then disinfected it (My AV defs are current, I do love the AutoUpdate). Needless to say I didn’t even bother opeing it, into the trash can it went. ---
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-virus-coming-out-w32-badtrans-is-irritating-me/95435/4 "2001-11-27T13:47:09Z")
I’m a Mac user, forced at knifepoint (well it feels like that anyway) to use Windows Meee on a Peee Ceee at work. I’ve managed to be infected by two worms, and they’re such a pain. Actually I sort of guessed they were viruses before I tried to open them, but half of me didn’t care, because it’s just a stupid Windows computer. I managed to clean them out, but it was hard. The thought of anything like that trying to infect my precious pristine ibook - _shudder_ - it may be the only advantage to staying at 4% market share but it’s a significant one. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2001, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-virus-coming-out-w32-badtrans-is-irritating-me/95435/5 "2001-11-27T16:26:47Z")
God, that virus is a pain. I just got done blocking it from our pc’s at work. I had 110 messages since yesterday–two thirds were from the Badtrans virus. Annoying.