Virus Warning
Jonathan Robie
jonathan.robie at datadirect-technologies.com
Tue Oct 8 02:15:25 EDT 2002
At 04:18 PM 10/6/2002 -0400, Philip E. Cleary wrote:
>I just received a message addressed to the list with the subject "Sincerely
>yours." It was purportedly sent from jwrobie at mindspring.com. It is infected
>with the W32.Klez.H at mm virus.
Sigh.
I went in to the administrator's menu to put myself on permanent
moderation, but it looks like Carl beat me to it. I think that will prevent
any further virus-laden messages from my address.
These emails were not sent from my computer, but from someone who spoofed
my address. There are several reasons I'm fairly sure this didn't originate
with my computer: (1) on Thursday, I was working at Almaden Research
Center, which has security measure that prevented me from sending any mail
at all, and some of these mails were sent at times I was simply not
connected to the Internet; (2) Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition, which is
running on my computer, detects the virus in the incoming mails and deletes
them without letting me read them, so I seem to be protected against this
one; (4) I use Eudora, and Klez usually targets Outlook; (4) Norton also
fails to find any viruses on my computer.
The email headers for most of the mails seem indicate that they were sent
by someone else:
>Received: from Ubouymdex ([162.130.1.254]) by out016.verizon.net
> (InterMail vM.5.01.05.09 201-253-122-126-109-20020611) with SMTP
> id <20021003173108.BUQK9318.out016.verizon.net at Ubouymdex>
> for <b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu>;
Some of the email headers are less clear.
I'm not an expert on viruses, but I don't think this is coming from my
computer. Regardless, Carl and I have put me on moderation so no new
viruses slip out to the list, and I got the latest updates from Norton.
Jonathan
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