On Wednesday 20 Aug 2003 2:21 am, Dennis Myers wrote:
Wow, I have been getting email with the blaster worm attached by the bucket
full. All addressed to the business email address or saying that my send
failed to soandso because the attached file has a worm. And the so called
contaminated file is attached. Funny though I use kmail with firewalls one
on the machine and one on the router and none of the addresses that I
supposedly sent the worm to are in or ever have been in my address book. A
ruse or will kmail or linux somehow transmit a worm to an unknown email
address? Any one have an idea what is going on and or seen this type of
email before? I can find no indication that I have the blaster worm. And if
I did why would it work? Time for a disk wipe? TIA for any advice.
When ths happens it often means that someone with your e-mail address in their address book is infected. The virus on their system mails people spoofing it as coming from you. Check the headers of the attached mails to see if you can find out who is actually infected and e-mail them or e-mail their ISP.
I just got an email returned (which I never sent) from an aol server claiming that I sent the email with Outlook Express. I have never sent an email using Outbreak Express in my entire life, and wouldn't be stupid enough to start now.
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