Craig on 31 Aug 2003 04:36:07 -0000 |
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RE: [spoon-discuss] Mailer-Demon messages? |
>>>>Is anyone getting Mailer-Demon messages from ms.contactel.cz about >>>messages >>>they supposedly sent but didn't? It looks to me like someone >>>>with my email address has picked up a mail-sending virus. And I'm fairly >>>sure it ain't me. >>> >>>Not from that one, but I'm guessing the virus in question is the Sobig F >>>worm. It sends a message to people in the address book of the infected >>>person, from others in the same address book. I've gotten several >>>notifications that someone's system sent an e-mail claiming to be from me >>>that was infected with the worm, so I scanned my computer and found no >>>viruses. >> >>I think the infected person uses Outlook, God help em. I use Calypso, >>which is sort of virus-proof -- it doesn't have any autoscripting >>capacity. >And bellsouth.net as an ISP, according to the IP address. Anyone wanna fess up? :) I'll fess up to using Outlook, but I am uninfected. By the way, the infected file on the only Sobig message I've received is a .scr that you would have to open. Yes, someone has to be dumb enough to believe you would send them a screen saver by e-mail! -- Teucer "Paginate my subjective reality, baby!" -Taliesin ragnarok@xxxxxxxxx teucer@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ spoon-discuss mailing list spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/spoon-discuss