On Saturday 24 July 2004 15:21, Jeff Vian wrote: I don't know whats going on here, but suddenly I'm getting anywhere up to 4 copies of every posting here. This was one I got 4 copies of. >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) -- Cheers, Gene There are 4 boxes to be used in defense of liberty. Soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order, starting now. -Ed Howdershelt, Author Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, Maurice E. Heskett, all rights reserved.
