On Tuesday 21 Oct 2003 10:20 pm, rikona wrote: > Hello Anne, > > Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 12:52:52 PM, you wrote: > > AW> The problem is that she is part of a mailing group for her job. > AW> The people are trustworth, in that there is no way that they > AW> would intentionally cause problems, and actually problems from > AW> the home computers of individuals have rarely caused a problem > (I AW> think there were 2 cases a couple of years ago). It's their > work AW> computers that are virus-ridden, and that is just > sickening. > > Look carefully at what is happening. Let's suppose a group of > workers regularly communicate with the same, or different, people > at work. The address books of these people at home will contain > many address for people at work. A 'home' user gets a virus and it > is sent out to others, but it 'spoofs' the work addresses in the > book. On quick examination it would look as though these were sent > from 'work' because of the spoofing, but the virus is on a home > computer. In the M$ world, the address book is NOT your friend, and > should be BLANK. > > Do we know, from actual virus scans, that the work machines are > virus-ridden? If true, then someone there is NOT doing a good job. > > Also, who uses Panda AV? It might be a clue as to who has it.
I'm afraid this is a straight-forward case. The hospital that these came from was definitely infected - lost many of its systems for a whole week. The mails in question did come from the person named. They were on-topic. The guy who send the last couple did so from home. Again they were on-topic and he uses Panda. She has contacted him about this. I suspect that he is one of the many who think that installing av is enough, and simply don't keep their bases up to date. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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