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| Thread ID: 43467 | 2004-03-15 23:18:00 | Virus alerts from email "recipients" | John H (8) | Press F1 |
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| 222785 | 2004-03-15 23:18:00 | I have had three responses from government department or business administrators over the past week or so claiming I have sent them emails that contain a virus. I have never heard of the recipients. I have checked my three computers with Norton Anti Virus last week, and System Suite 5 this week (I have changed over in the interval) with the latest virus definition files. I have also scanned two of the computers with the Trend Micro on line virus scanner. Auto email scan is always turned on as well. I think that is fairly thorough... No virii found. Is this one of those nasties that harvest my email address from someone else's email address book and then spoofs my address, or have I missed something here? The email subject line varies but it has the pattern "Re: Your Music" or Re: Your details". On another tack, I certainly don't like the accusatory tone adopted by some of the auto responses from recipients and their assumption that I have been slack... :-( I should have thought that if they were competent enough to be a network administrator they wouldn't have jumpted to the conclusion that the email originated with the putative sender. |
John H (8) | ||
| 222786 | 2004-03-15 23:42:00 | > Is this one of those nasties that harvest my email > address from someone else's email address book and > then spoofs my address, or have I missed something > here? The email subject line varies but it has the > pattern "Re: Your Music" or Re: Your details". Yes, they would be one of the recent MyDoom, Netsky, and Beagle worm families that have obtained your email address somewhere along the line. Over the past few weeks I have received a number of emails with similar headings/attachments from what look like government departments in Australia. Who knows where they obtained my email address from. |
tommy (2826) | ||
| 222787 | 2004-03-16 00:11:00 | Thanks Tommy. What a way to have your reputation sullied across the web - one hopes that it doesn't get sent to anyone I know! And no doubt my previously secure email address is now being harvested for on-selling to spammers. :-( Thanks again John |
John H (8) | ||
| 222788 | 2004-03-16 00:13:00 | I had one from Telecom yesterday claiming I had sent a virus. It never came from here, but would have been "spoofed" to look as though it had. The response from large companies is usually fully automated. They would never get the time to manually respond to every instance. So don't take it personally :) |
godfather (25) | ||
| 222789 | 2004-03-16 00:23:00 | >So don't take it personally Chuckle |
John H (8) | ||
| 222790 | 2004-03-16 04:17:00 | Me, too. received one last week with quite similar contents. Just delete them. |
bk T (215) | ||
| 222791 | 2004-03-16 04:30:00 | Have also had heaps of virus infected emails from important looking addresses over the past few weeks though have yet to have any give me a telling off for lax security. :D Strangely enough AVG has not always picked up that the attachments are viruses when they come into the Inbox but if I save them to the hard drive it will immediately jump on them. |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 222792 | 2004-03-16 04:42:00 | yeah, ive been getting a few of those virus thingos too.... | agent_24 (4330) | ||
| 222793 | 2004-03-16 04:53:00 | John H was not referring to emails with a virus attachment . He was talking about messages he received advising him that email sent from his email address could not be delivered due to them containing a virus . Why would you even bother saving them to your hard drive when they are obviously virus emails, I would have thought deletion as soon as possible would be more sensible . There is always the possibility that it is a new virus and AVG may not have been updated for it . . As well some virus emails do not require the attachment to be opened to activate . Why some people play around with emails with attachments from people they don't know and risk infection is beyone me and probably goes a long way to explaining why they keep getting spread around . Delete them as soon as possible, do not save or open the attachment and do not even open the email if possible . If you do not know the person who sent it is not something you need or want . |
Jim B (153) | ||
| 222794 | 2004-03-16 04:57:00 | Depends on the extension Ms B. I've had the odd one too that PcCillin hasen't got immediately but when droped in a folder for that purpose it gets dealt to. The big corp's and govt addy's seem to be a common theme amongst the senders and recipients. Just goes to show most of us deal with them at some level, even if we didn't before these viri attacks :D Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
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