Forum Archive Index - October 2002

["Ben Dutton" <bendutton@sharechat.co.nz>]

Guys,

 

Please understand how these virus's work.  Most of them nowadays "fake" their from addresses by using email addresses in infected people's computers.  Thus, John is not infected himself (he can't be otherwise Mail Marshal wouldn't clear his mail) but someone who he has emailed before has been infected and is spreading the virus around with his name in the from address.

 

This has happened to me plenty of time before.  Also, I get on average around 20 infected emails a day - when Bugbear (which this probably is) was big around a month ago I was getting up to 100 a day.

 

Just follow the rules - don't open attachments from people you don't know, and get a virus scanner.

 

No worries.

 

Best Regards

 

Ben Dutton.

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Capitalist

To: sharechat@sharechat.co.nz

Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:42 AM

Subject: Re: Re: [sharechat] VIRUS WARNING

Hi John,

I got an email from you with an infected attachment on 26/10/02 at 12.03 pm. The attachment was My.Money.mny.exe  The body of the message said something like Hi Oliver... and a reference to stockwatch I think. Norton picked it up and no harm done. Strange it should have come to me though - I don't know you.