Re: Weird EMail - - Virus??

From: jon@dakota-truck.net
Date: Tue Aug 27 2002 - 16:35:31 EDT


Granpa Silver89 <SilverEightynine@earthlink.net> wrote:

: I'm using Mozilla for email on my Mac - - and being a Mac user I have
: never really been worried about all of these viruses I hear about.
: (heh I know that sounds smug - sorry) I have NEVER had an infected
: computer before. Whereas all of my PC using friends have.

  Gustov! You stinking Mac user! ;-)

: Thats not the reason I posted this -I'm not trying to start a flame
: war!! The reason I am posting is...

: I got a weird email about 10 mins ago from sender:
: owner-dakota-truck<owner-dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>

: with the message "This is a very powful tool I hope you would enjoy it."

: There was no attatched file - however there was some unidentified
: anolomy that may have been an embedded file (within the email as AOL
: uses for pictures etc)

  Probably the Klez worm, with a faked sender. If you take a look
at the full headers of the e-mail message the very last "Received:"
header will probably contain the e-mail address of the infected
person's system which actually sent it.

-- 

-Jon-

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