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Dark Shadows
positiveviolence at gmail.com
Sun Jan 2 20:38:55 UTC 2005
I USE LINUX... WHY DO I NEED TO WORRY ABOUT VIRUSES ????
On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 13:34 -0700, James Mckenzie wrote:
> >I also have been getting them.
> >I sent an e-mail to postmaster at domain
>
> Ok folks, this is a virus, been around for a while. Look at the attachment size, should be between 75 and 77 KB in size. And the best thing to do is delete the virus message and NOT send a message to the postmaster of "nowhere.domain.com". I have spam/virusblocker on at Earthlink and I receive about 10 of them a day. I don't even bother to figure out where my address came from, but it has to be someone running WindowsXX as this is the affected operating system.
>
> >I doubt the user who subscribed is to blaim.
> >If anyone knows who he/she is, it would be courteous to let him/her
> >know that they should perhaps use a different e-mail address.
>
> I doubt that it is someone on this list, but it is possible because some of our members use Windows. The best thing is to obtain a virus checker (we have ClamAV with AVG which I definately support) and run it frequently. My system at work runs a check against the directory that I use and download files to on a daily basis and I have download file check turned on. I check the entire system on a regular basis. Also, I update the virus definitions on a daily basis to keep up with the nasties....
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> With most of the latest viruses incorporating SMTP engines, the from address is spoofed. When a virus message is sent to "someone at nowhere.com", the message bounces back to you. Also messages are sent directly from the SMTP engine but the sender is spoofed to be a postmaster address.
>
> Lastly I recommend visiting the SARC, which is ran by Symantec. Pay a visit to www.symantec.com and following the links.
>
> --
> James McKenzie
>
>
> James McKenzie
> A Proud User of Linux!
>
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