----- Original Message ----- From: "Trevor Smith" <trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Fedora List" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 6:07 PM Subject: Windows virus lately? > Yesterday at school the support people mentioned that a new virus had crashed > their mail server. Then my employer said she had received numerous virus > infected emails last night. Last night and today I've been getting bounces, > some of which said "hey this message YOU sent has a virus in it", and all of > which had an attachment of some kind (probably the aforementioned virus). > > However, I have been using Linux almost exclusively for the past 2 weeks and > the odd time I have booted to Win2k, I have not sent or received email. > > My theory is that I probably did not send anyone any viruses but that the > virus du jour actually steals addresses from people's address books and sends > itself using those addresses as its "to" address. This theory is supported by > the fact that I have received some dubious looking messages from people who > have some "six degrees" sort of connections to me, but whom I have never > corresponded with (so they might have been in other people's address > books...). These messages I've received have had attachments that didn't look > right so I deleted them as usual. > > What do you think? If I have only been doing my emailing with Linux, is it > possible that I have been sending a Win virus? Just thought you linux people > might have a better idea. > > FWIW, I have a firewall installed on Linux (I believe) and I run tiny personal > firewall on Win2k at all times too. So sneaky apps that try to send out data > without permission or those that try to usurp control or overwrite existing > programs are noticed immediately on Win2k by TPF. > > -- > Trevor Smith | trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/28/017219&mode=thread&tid=109&t id=126&tid=128&tid=187 Should answer your question. Bry
