Michelle Salois @eskimo.com at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 8/20/02 11:58 AM -----
>I've been getting messages lately from my own isp, and from various other >isp type sites telling me that there was a virus in the message I sent to >xxxx sometimes someone I have an address for and others someone I don't >know. I've even gotten messages for undeliverable for a bad address i >don't have. I am assumed at first that these were legit notices that >resulted from someone having the klez virus and having my email address >in their system and thus put in the return address spot. Some of these >may be such. others have garbage text filling the bottom large portion of >the email. so maybe the messages themselves are made by the klez virus. >I don't know how to tell at this point and I'm getting worried that >someone (earthlink?) may cut off my mail because of this false blame. >I'm sure I don't have a virus, as last I knew macs don't get the klez, I >run emailer, I have norton antivirus up to date and running. any >suggestions? Michelle - A Windows user with your email address in his/her address book has a Windows virus. This particular virus fakes the return address, making it appear the message has come from you when in fact it is coming from the infected Windows machine. You ISP is looking at the faked return address instead of the email path (Mail -> Show Long Headers) and giving you the false report of an infection. If your ISP is as mindless as mine, at some point you may get a message telling you that if you don't "clean up your computer" the ISP will terminate service. I suggest you contact your ISP, explain the facts to them, ans ask them to configure their virus alert software to examine the internet header and not the (easily faked) return address. Jim DeWitt ------------------------------------------------------------- James D. DeWitt Voice: (907) 452-8986 Icicle Software Fax: (907) 452-7015 PO Box 72750 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fairbanks, Alaska 99707 http://www.iciclesoftware.com ------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
