Pesky virus
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Sat Jul 24 19:21:26 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 10:14, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> I've got a small problem. Last week I received in my
> non-espersunited.com email account an email from someone I don't know
> with an .exe file as an attachment. Naturally I assumed that this was a
> virus, and wrote back to the email address it was from informing them
Dumb.
1. You told them they had used a valid address.
2. if the 'from' address was spoofed (as many are) you sent it to the
unsuspecting innocent party.
> that they had a virus. I've received several similar emails on through
> the week, most were unique but all followed the same format: One line
> of text and then the attachment link, usually a .exe or a .zip file. I
> haven't opened any of them, but in the past couple of days I've begun
> seeing them in my espersunited.com email accounts. I wasn't too worried
> about it until this morning, when I received a message from another SMTP
3. You have been wearing blinders for quite some time if you are not
aware of problems like 1 & 2 above.
> server saying that my mail was undeliverable to some person's email
> account. I looked at the message sent and it was indeed from me, but
> the message body held the same one line and thesame EXE/ZIP file
> attachment as the ones I'd received from multiple sources. I use
> evolution as my email client. Could I be infected with this virus? I
> didn't think Linux was susceptible to virii - only hostile shell
> scripts. Is there a way I can test if I am infected, and if I am, is
> there a way to find the virus so that I can destroy it?
>
If you are running linux you are not likely infected, However, if your
address was harvested from someone elses contact list their machine can
use your address as a spoofed sender. (see 2 above)
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