Forum Archive Index - October 2002

["John Wedde" <John.Wedde@weltec.ac.nz>]

Ben,
Many thanks for "clearing my name"
Cheers,
John

>>> bendutton@sharechat.co.nz Thursday, 31 October 2002 11:49:27 a.m.
>>>
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.

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