In many email programs, you can click on the message and then go to View and click "Raw Source" or "Long Headers" or something along those lines. This will give you full information about where the email originated. When reporting abusive spam (Nigerian, or "buyers" wanting to send a check for more than the sale amount and then asking you to wire them the difference, people using your email address to spam others, etc.), the authorities (your ISP, or the government) ask that you click on the Raw Source or Long Headers before sending it on so they can more easily track it down.
If you will tell us which email program you use, perhaps one of us can tell you how to most easily determine how to find out the originator of the message. I'm sure we would all like to know if our computer might be infected, so we can disinfect it.
Which worm is it, did your ISP say? I think WB32 (or something along those lines) is the main one going around these days.
You can check with http://www.Symantec.com or http://www.McAfee.com for http://www.FSecure.com for more info on the various worms and viruses going around, what they do, and how to get rid of them. I personally got tired of constantly worrying about new worms and viruses getting past my PC firewalls and anti-virus programs no matter my daily updates, and thus wound up getting a Macintosh, which I love. It isn't completely immune (there's a new worm/virus out there specifically for Macintoshes now), but the vast majority of worms and viruses seem to be aimed directly at PCs and Microsoft products (most likely because there are so many of them out there, or perhaps in some instances by nasty-minded people who have come to develop a great dislike for Microsoft).
http://www.Fsecure.com is the anti-virus program of choice for the University of Florida IT department, and provides a wealth of information on their website - more so than do Symantec or McAfee.
Perhaps you should alert the owner of the list so he can go in and clear the worm out of the archives?
Susan
On Mar 21, 2006, at 12:00 PM, DONALD BOWEN wrote:
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Jason Ellingson informed me (off site) that some , but not all, ISP programs automatically remove virus or worm- containing e-mails/attachments. My ISP (MSN Hotmail) detected the worm, and warned me not to open it ,which I would NOT have. I did receive the e-mail on the Flyin site, so some others must have received it,too.
I am told these things are associated with someone's already infected mail lists, and might be able to be tracked to locate the source. I "ain't" smart enough to do so. Hopefully one of you is!
Don Bowen
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