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Re: Virus on message


On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 15:47, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> I find it all rather strange. This morning I had lots of emails from
> postmasters and mail virus filter from all over the world saying i
> sent all sorts of random people this message. Not just people on
> ecos-discuss. This is not true. It looks like some mail virus has
> picked up my mail, attached the virus to it and then sent it to many
> people, making it look like it came from me. Our mail logs shows i did
> not send it. Also, my machine is not infected. Its a Solaris machine
> anyway, so much less likely to get infected by a virus or a worm.
> 
> So, please don't shoot me, im an innocent bystander in all this.
> 
>     Andrew
> 

The message definitely came from another place. Sorry i deleted it, but
the sender mailer was somewhere from ".ie" domain.

Looks like somebody subscribed to the list got his Outlook infected.

iz



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