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)
