On Friday, July 4, 2003, at 03:34 PM, k wrote:
In this beloved country people has begun to recieve .pif attachments from unknown senders and also it seems that this .pif has started to send out mails from a friend on a mac with an eudora addressbook -
ANYONE ?!?!????
No.
The From addresses on these emails are forged.
This is the Sobig virus, most likely, which has the virus disguised as a .pif file inside of a .zip file. The virus pulls e-mail addresses from the infected computer's Outlook address book, and any e-mail addresses it can find in <mailto::> tags in the Internet Explorer cache.
Look at the full headers of the e-mail and you'll see that the mail originated at a different ip address than where it says it came from. (You want to look at the earliest "Recieved: from" entry. That tells where the mail originated.)
There is NO WAY a Mac can be infected with these viruses, unless you are crazy enough to check your e-mail and browse the web with Outlook and IE in Virtual PC or something...
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