----- Original Message -----
From: "Trevor Smith" <trevor(a)haligonian.com>
To: "Fedora List" <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 6:07 PM
Subject: Windows virus lately?
Yesterday at school the support people mentioned that a new virus had
crashed
their mail server. Then my employer said she had received numerous
virus
infected emails last night. Last night and today I've been getting
bounces,
some of which said "hey this message YOU sent has a virus in
it", and all
of
which had an attachment of some kind (probably the aforementioned
virus).
However, I have been using Linux almost exclusively for the past 2 weeks
and
the odd time I have booted to Win2k, I have not sent or received
email.
My theory is that I probably did not send anyone any viruses but that the
virus du jour actually steals addresses from people's address books and
sends
itself using those addresses as its "to" address. This
theory is supported
by
the fact that I have received some dubious looking messages from
people
who
have some "six degrees" sort of connections to me, but whom
I have never
corresponded with (so they might have been in other people's address
books...). These messages I've received have had attachments that didn't
look
right so I deleted them as usual.
What do you think? If I have only been doing my emailing with Linux, is it
possible that I have been sending a Win virus? Just thought you linux
people
might have a better idea.
FWIW, I have a firewall installed on Linux (I believe) and I run tiny
personal
firewall on Win2k at all times too. So sneaky apps that try to send
out
data
without permission or those that try to usurp control or overwrite
existing
programs are noticed immediately on Win2k by TPF.
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Trevor Smith | trevor(a)haligonian.com
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Should answer your question.
Bry