RE: OT: Virus(?) help

["Pedro de Oliveira" <p.oliveira@xxxxxxx>]

Malcolm

That is the nature of bugbear - it forges the "from" field to to
look like it comes from someones address in the infected computers contacts
list.  It means someone who has you in their contacts list is infected with
bugbear.... not you.

I wouldn't worry about it - just make sure your virus defs are up to date.

Pedro

-----Original Message-----
From: Malcolm Surgenor [mailto:malcolm@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Tue 02/12/2003 18:42
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Cc:
Subject: [ukha_d] OT: Virus(?) help




I know it's off thread but hopefully one of you guys can point me in the
right direction.  I came home tonight to find about 50 e-mails from people
I've never heard off returning an e-mail I supposedly sent to them because
it contained a virus (w32.bugbear.b.dam). Some, who obviously didn't have
virus protection themselves, just returned it saying I'd sent an e-mail to
them in error.

Firstly, I've always considered myself well protected with an up to date
copy of Norton running on all my machines together with ZoneAlarm Pro.
Indeed Norton caught the virus in any of the e-mails that just retuned the
original e-mail including the virus.

The e-mail they were returning looked as thought it came from my domain but
it used an address that I have never used (it used the name Charlie and
there is no Charlie in my family!).  How can someone send out an e-mail
using my domain name / e-mail address.

Many of the retuned e-mails were from automatic virus checkers but I find
it
extremely embarrassing that all these people think that I sent them an
infected e-mail!

Malcolm