Trojan horse/auto delete message

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Jason Mitchell

I had a a message come in today with the subject: "RE: Auto Responder from
Natural Wish" or something like that. When I clicked on it to mark it as
junk, the message took it and a number of the messages around it and put
them in the delete folder. Investigating further, I went after it in the
delete folder, and when I click on it again, it deleted most of the messages
in the delete folder. Now the really scary part. And then, I clicked on a
folder in my Entourage directory and a dialogue opened and asked if I was
sure I wanted to delete that folder. I clicked cancel and the same dialogue
opened again. I figured there was a moment of time before the next dialogue
window would open so I command-q it right after clicking cancel again and it
quit without protest.

So ... I believe there is a similar type of delete monster on the windows
side and that there is a fix for it to kill it as it comes in. How about a
mac port if this is true ...

System Specs:
Office 2004 with the latest updates including junk mail filter
Powerbook G4 1.67 GHz
1.5 GB RAM
100 GB HD
Mac 10.4.1
 
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Barry Wainwright

I had a a message come in today with the subject: "RE: Auto Responder from
Natural Wish" or something like that. When I clicked on it to mark it as
junk, the message took it and a number of the messages around it and put
them in the delete folder. Investigating further, I went after it in the
delete folder, and when I click on it again, it deleted most of the messages
in the delete folder. Now the really scary part. And then, I clicked on a
folder in my Entourage directory and a dialogue opened and asked if I was
sure I wanted to delete that folder. I clicked cancel and the same dialogue
opened again. I figured there was a moment of time before the next dialogue
window would open so I command-q it right after clicking cancel again and it
quit without protest.

So ... I believe there is a similar type of delete monster on the windows
side and that there is a fix for it to kill it as it comes in. How about a
mac port if this is true ...
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Probably not malware, more likely to be database corruption.

Hold down the Option key when starting Entourage until you see the rebuild
screen, then follow the instructions to rebuild the database.
 
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