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sabre66
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 Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 4:30 pm Post subject: What the F............. |
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Well this seems weird aparently I sent an email with a virus attached to it
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From: xxxxxx@telus.net
To: -0001j7-00@sercm.org
Subject: Re: My details
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 19:05:13 -0600
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
------=_NextPart_000_0011_00000F1E.00007958
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
------------------ Virus Warning Message (on ser)
Found virus WORM_NETSKY.D in file my_details.pif
The uncleanable file is deleted.
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------=_NextPart_000_0011_00000F1E.00007958
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="Windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Here is the file.
------=_NextPart_000_0011_00000F1E.00007958
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
------------------ Virus Warning Message (on ser)
my_details.pif is removed from here because it contains a virus.
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------=_NextPart_000_0011_00000F1E.00007958-- |
Can this be true? how can this be? I didn't even send any email out in the last week, especially to that address. Is it possiblle Im being screwed with and if so how to find out.
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Tsonn
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Sadly this still isn't common knowledge... it should be.
Viruses have been spoofing email addresses for a long time. You can find a lot of information on the topic if you google for it.
A lot of admins are out of touch... they still bounce virus emails even when they usually end up going to the wrong person because the address is spoofed.
Anyway. What it means is, someone who has your address in their address book has a virus. You can sometimes figure out who it is by looking at the mail headers; I've tracked down the infected computer a few times. Try reading some of the information google turns up if you want to learn how to do that.
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pjp
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| Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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Similar thread title even: wtf is this?
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nobspangle
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| Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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| 26199 wrote: | | Anyway. What it means is, someone who has your address in their address book has a virus. |
It can be even more random than that. Most viruses these days can scan any text file on a system for email addresses, this means email addresses can be read from other emails (like chained forwards where one person sends a mail to a load of people and they send it to their mates and every time it get's forwarded everybodies email is added to the top) and also from cached web pages. |
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