All,If you receive an email claiming to be from the "AVSim management team" about your email account, and to open an attached file for more info...DELETE THIS EMAIL IMMEDIATELY!This is a virus generated email and is not being sent by AVSim.com. The attached file contains a virus.Just FYI!

Thanks for the warning Ken. I had one sitting in my inbox that I wasn't quite sure what to do with, and now I just deleted the sucker :)

I'll bet it is 25k or 26k with attachment.popular little sucker that keeps reappearing. All I can say is that there must be a lot of infected PCs around.Andy b

I'm the email admin for a major transit authority. We get over 100 infected messages to the gateway every day. I strip the viruses before they are delivered.I'm also getting over 35000 pieces of spam per 24 hour period (that's what we recieved and dropped on 3/30/2004 alone!)Glad I maintian that gateway :)Tim

sry ? autogenerated ??? the mail comes directly from [email protected] if something like this happens y not putting a note on the FRONT PAGE ! so that everyone notices this !i opened the god damn mail...guys do u ever think when doing such things..someone from avsim sends a mail with a virus including in it and u just put it in the forum !sry but how stupid can someone be.....if this occures a message in the news would be the only reasonable way to let ppl know...best regardsSascha J.FlightCraft CEO

What, have you had your head buried somewhere for the last five years or so??? "Stupid"???? I take exception to that. Everybody and their dog knows about the embedded trojans running around that HIJACK people's address books, fake a source address and bombard everyone on that list. Where the hell have you been??? And if you are stupid enough to not be running a virus program, then you are the problem. Putting it on the Front Page (as we have done many many times before) apparently would not get your attention, so why should we bother? Stupid indeed.

Thanks for the uplifting and supportive comments.We post items on the front page, and then someone asks about the same topic in the forums. Some people have the forums directly bookmarked, so they never see the front page.Again, NO ONE from AVSim sent the email. Hence the reason for the post.I was merely posting as an FYI since I personally had an email like this sent to me. My virus scanner immediately caught it.If you are not running a virus scanner, then it is your own fault for opening that attachment (or any attachment) from any email in the first place since you have no way of knowing if it is infected or not, even if it comes from a "trusted" source.Since you apparently don't run a virus scanner, I wonder how long you have been infected and sending these types of emails yourself? You have no idea how many emails I get a day that are infected because someone out there doesn't scan their computer and has an avsim.com email address in their address book. On average I'd a dozen emails a day.If you would like to try a free virus scanner, http://www.avast.com is one I personally use."Trust but verify."

YOU ONLY GET A DOZEN???? I should be so lucky!!! Overnight, I must have received some 24 to 30. I don't bother counting anymore. My position is coming around to this; there are always going to be idiots that create virus', trojans, etc. But, the bigger idiots that don't protect themselves are the real problem. I have lost all sympathy to those that can't be bothered to protect their machines, and thereby, protect their fellow computer users. We should require licenses to operate these things!!!

I wasn't counting the 20-30 other spam emails.I use freeware MailWasher (www.mailwasher.net and suggested by someone here at AVSim) to clear out the vast majority of these before I download the emails using Outlook 2003 combined with freeware plugin SpamBayes (http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/) and the Outlook plugin supplied by Avast.com, my free virus scanner.Using this combination, I get zero virus or spam emails into my inbox on my computer (the SpamBayes and Avast.com also scan my Hotmail account and other email accounts I maintain.)Outlook 2003 by itself has a half-way decent spam detector and makes it difficult to get a virus since it will not allow display any embedded images or scripts unless you tell it to, and will not allow you to easily run an attachment from an email. Basically, you really have to try to get yourself infected.Unfortunately, not everyone has Outlook 2003, so they have to deal with the security holes in the older version of it and Outlook express. As to other email programs...I wouldn't know.

ken i did run a virus scan thats y i was informed of the virus..but as everyone is aware of it y not posting a note on the frontpage so everyone notices it.would have been a way to avoid it...or post it above the forum listing.. so ppl comming there see it..with that way a lot of problems wouldnt have come up..for future times id recommend doing so in order to avoid stressesbest regardsSascha J.FlightCraft CEO

MailWasher is a great freeware utility and shouldn't be underestimated! Glad to see you use it Ken, for the benefit of anyone else, it allows you to view your email direct from your server, anounces viruses and suspected viruses, and ttries to predict spam. It allows you to 'blacklist' mail that you know to be harmful or spam and will block that in future, and also attempts to bounce the sent mail back to the sender in the attempt to fool the sender server into thinking your email address/domain is no longer active. Also of course it allows you to delete all the crap direct off your ISP's server so you never receive any of this junk on your PC. So, no crap coming through = no viruses coming through from unknown sources! You should of course also have a decent email virus scanner for those messages from friends and trusted sources....you never know, and they may not know that they're infected!! There's SO many people out there who know nothing...NOTHING about PC's yet they use them daily, blissfuly ignorant of the harm they could be doing!! I get 'pestered' almost every day at work by colleagues such as these, the ignorant ones, who have no clue, about how to fix all manner of wierd stuff on their machines!! God only knows what they do to them....!!!Anyway, I've been using Mail Washer now for about a year because I'll daily get about 60-80 unknown spam/viruses sent from all over....people masquerading as banks, credit card companies, sons of some deposed Prince in South Africa who want to deposit several million US dollars into my bank account (YEAH!!! NOT!!), the viagra, bodily-part extensions (!), credit, all manner of random words and letters, you name it, I get it!! Actualy, the only one I haven't got yet is the one from Avsim, but I'd have previewed it first in Mail Washer......so cheers for the heads-up on that potential problem!!So protect yourselves folks, if you don't...think of it like a digital STD....use a digital condom and you'll be safe ;)

>Unfortunately, not everyone has Outlook 2003Or Mozilla Mail. :)

Sascha,First of all I would expect a CEO of a company to not call one of the major FS websites 'stupid.' Second of all, sir, the blame lies on you, not avsim. You were the one that opened that email. You were the one that did exactly what every security expert tells the average computer guy not to do. So suck it up, realize it is your fault, and move on. And maybe get a better virus scanner too, it should have caught it when you opened the email; at least every decent one that I know of does scanning like that.