Glenn Gilbreath Jr. wrote: > [...] In regards to Bob and others...it will not do any good for me > to run an AV scan, since I use 4 different antivirus scanners > already!
I normally would've written it off as such but... > The message in question was NOT sent by me...I don't have access to > the exact header data, but I would doubt very much if any of my > particular IP information is there. I use only dialup, and the > majority of the time I'm in DOS. Someone somewhere that has a list > of email addresses has a trojan on their system, plucking names at > random for the "From" address. Besides, when is the last time you > knew me to send ANY attachment to the list, this or any other? I've had such happen to me as well, but the recipients of these are usually someone (or a list) in the victim machine's owner's list, so since the From: and To: matched, though maybe this was the trail. Apologies if it wasn't yours! By all rights, I should've included the list itself (the server) in the suggestion to scan. > [...] My latest version of Windows is Win95A, no file or printer > sharing, only "network" is via dialup networking. At the moment, I'm > running only in DOS, using my own TCP/IP driver, and Arachne > 1.77;GPL;386+. Heh, yeah that does sound like a long shot for a target configuration! > If some off-the-wall trojan has been created for DOS, then Linux is > next, followed by MAC OS X, UNIX, AIX, SUN/SPARC and whatever else is > called an operating system! The spammers and virus-writers have long been cooperating. This is interesting in that the recipient (this list) seems to have been linked to the sender (Glenn). The harvesting of "good" addresses is an old trick, as is scooping addresses from victim (infected) machines. But if they're getting "more smart" about it, lists using "trusted" senders are in danger. Not good! Anyhow, glad yours is OK Glenn! - Bob
