Re: Virus alarm?

From: Chuck (none_at_example.net)
Date: 03/24/04 

Date: 24 Mar 2004 13:55:07 -0600

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 16:16:45 +0000, Peter James <nospam @
petefjames.clara.co.uk> wrote:

>I received the following email this afternoon. A complete check of my
>sent emails has failed to come up with an email addressed to the
>domain welcometospain.net, and no trace of any email entitled
>"Re:Document"..
>Is this a false alarm or something equally fishy. I ran AVG and
>failed to find any trace of the virus. The anti virus package was
>updated five days ago.
>
>"From: "System Anti-Virus Administrator" <alex@ofmin.com>
>To: xxxxxxxxxxxxx@clara.co.uk
>Subject: virus found in sent message "Re: Document"
>
>Attention: xxxxxxxxxxxxx@clara.co.uk
>
>
>A virus was found in an Email message you sent.
>This Email scanner intercepted it and stopped the entire message
>reaching its destination.
>
>The virus was reported to be:
>
>I-Worm.NetSky.d

Peter,

Netsky is one of the current viruses that spreads thru email, and forges
headers, including the address of who sent it. There are two problems here.

Someone who knows you, or at least has your address in his address book, has an
infected computer. That is the first problem.

The email gateway, that detected an infected attachment, and bounced a virus
warning back to the "sender" (your forged address) is the second problem.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

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