Hotmail and Viruses?
Mar 14, 2004 | 11:40 am
#1
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Hotmail and Viruses?
Okay, I open my inbox and get this message:
What gives? My laptop was shut off and in my computer bag at the time/date stamp mentioned, and the desktop was shut off.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">From : System Administrator <[email protected]>
Sent : Sunday, March 14, 2004 9:00 AM
To : boilermaker's [email protected]
Subject : Undeliverable: Re: Thanks!
| | | Inbox
Hotmail has permanently blocked the following potentially unsafe attachment(s): message_part2.pif (23 KB) More Info...
Your message
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Thanks!
Sent: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 12:56:57 -0500
did not reach the following recipient(s):
[email protected] on Sun, 14 Mar 2004 10:00:01 -0500
The recipient name is not recognized
The MTS-ID of the original message is: c=us;a= ;p=aero
plastics;l=SERVER104031414591N0LDH0Z
MSEXCH:IMS:Aero Plastics:xxxxxxxx:SERVER1 0 (000C05A6) Unknown
Recipient
</font>
Sent : Sunday, March 14, 2004 9:00 AM
To : boilermaker's [email protected]
Subject : Undeliverable: Re: Thanks!
| | | Inbox
Hotmail has permanently blocked the following potentially unsafe attachment(s): message_part2.pif (23 KB) More Info...
Your message
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Thanks!
Sent: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 12:56:57 -0500
did not reach the following recipient(s):
[email protected] on Sun, 14 Mar 2004 10:00:01 -0500
The recipient name is not recognized
The MTS-ID of the original message is: c=us;a= ;p=aero
plastics;l=SERVER104031414591N0LDH0Z
MSEXCH:IMS:Aero Plastics:xxxxxxxx:SERVER1 0 (000C05A6) Unknown
Recipient
</font>
Mar 14, 2004 | 2:51 pm
#2
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Posts: 4,839
Your address is probably being spoofed.
Likely nothing you did. A virus/worm harvested your address from someone else's address book.
Likely nothing you did. A virus/worm harvested your address from someone else's address book.
Mar 14, 2004 | 9:51 pm
#3
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Your address is being faked as a from address on a virus mailing. No huge deal at all, the common ones in the last few weeks (netsky and the others) function that way. It was picked up from the mailbox or the address book in an infected machine.