said by hobgoblin :

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I am not sure, But I believe it will be reinforced by E mail today.

Hob

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said by Adelphia website:

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Dear Adelphia High-Speed Internet Customer,

As you may be aware, Adelphia is currently in the process of taking steps to minimize the spread of a two new viruses, the.Nachi.A/Welchia Worm, a version of the original Blaster Worm attacking Microsoft operating systems and the Sobig.f virus, a mass-mailing type of virus that arrives as an e-mail attachment.

Special tools for removing the Nachi/Welchia worm from your PC can be found at the following links:

»us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.···ructions

»securityresponse.symantec.com/av···orm.html

»www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyse···hia.html

In order to prevent re-infection of your PC there are several actions that should be taken:

Install the patches released by Microsoft to repair the vulnerability. These patches can be found at: »windowsupdate.microsoft.com

Update your anti-virus software to the most up-to-date virus definitions

Install a firewall to help prevent unauthorized access to your PC

When activated the Sobig.f virus infects the PC and then e-mails itself to harvested addresses from the victim machine's address book. It does this using its own mail server that is part of the virus. When it sends out these e-mails it falsifies the "from:" field using one of the addresses harvested from the address book. This makes it appear that the virus was sent from someone else rather than the infected machine.

Further information on this virus can be found at the following links:

»us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.···me=sobig

»securityresponse.symantec.com/av···@mm.html

»www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyse···igf.html

Unfortunately, these viruses have impacted the Adelphia network significantly. You may be noticing slow speeds, regular disconnections or no connection at all. We are working to stabilize our network quickly and appreciate your patience while we do this.

In order to continue to stabilize our network, Adelphia will be taking additional measures that will impact a small group of Internet customers that use ping commands. Low-level pings (less than 100 bytes), DOS based commands used to determine Internet access in troubleshooting processes, will be blocked for an undetermined amount of time. If you use pings, you may not be able to ping anything outside the Adelphia network while this block is in place. This will not affect customers that do not use pings. As soon as the spread of the worm is under control and our network is stabilized, we will remove this block. We regret to have to put this block into effect but it is crucial to stabilizing the network and reducing the number if ICMP requests currently flooding our system due to the virus.

Please be assured that Adelphia is taking all possible measures to prevent the virus from impacting the Power Link network.

Thank you,

Adelphia Communications

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said by iago62 :

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Adelphia has sent me emails saying I have sent spam to someone.. NO WAY... I am alway up on virus definitions

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