AOL have informed me that I have sent an email containing an unrepairable virus. I know from the following lines: X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Spam: Not detected X-AOL-IP: 82.10.38.23 That it was not sent using my computer as it only has installed upon it slackware10.2.
Any advise as to what action to take gratefully accepted
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 19:11 +0100, John Seago wrote:
AOL have informed me that I have sent an email containing an unrepairable virus. I know from the following lines: X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Spam: Not detected X-AOL-IP: 82.10.38.23 That it was not sent using my computer as it only has installed upon it slackware10.2.
Any advise as to what action to take gratefully accepted
What has happened is that an infected machine has your email address in an address book (or web cache or perhaps in the header of a message in the inbox). Whilst trying to propagate it has picked up your address and used it to forge the from address.
Do nothing, or if you are a good citizen you can try to track down who sent it so that you can warn them (you might know them) that they have a virus.
clue- Whois says it was somebody on Virgin Internet Pay as you Go
On 5/18/06, John Seago johnseago@two-ravens.org.uk wrote:
AOL have informed me that I have sent an email containing an unrepairable virus.
AOL have spammed you because they belive the forged "from" address. If you're lucky you'll only get one email, rather than one email per virus infected message. The best thing to do is flag AOL's message as spam, and let your own spam filter gobble them up.
Tim.
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