Hi Peter, I would also be worried if McAfee.com was infected, but I highly doubt it. See below for my reasoning.
I would guess that the virus you mention is one of the two following possibilities: 1. It was either the BugBear or Klez virus. These virus fakes the email address that they are coming from, so that you cannot determine where it actually came from. They do this by extracting email addresses from the infected computers email address book. Klez picks one address to send to, and one to send from. BugBear takes one address to send to, and then uses parts of other addresses to create a fake address (ie. [EMAIL PROTECTED] + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + [EMAIL PROTECTED] = [EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2. The message was an actual message from mcafee, and was a "Virus newsletter" describing new threats. I regularly see these kind of messages being blocked by virus scanners, usually because they contain detailed descriptions of the viruses, and the virus scanner assumes these partial descriptions (often attachment names) are the actual virus. Not knowing anything specific about "Mailwasher" I can't say for sure, but this is most probably the case. Hope this clarifies things, Let me know if you find out any more about it (especially if McAfee is REALLY infected :-) ), Cheers, Ben Murphy. Leeton Gliding Club -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Peter Stephenson Sent: Wednesday, 9 October 2002 5:50 PM To: Soaring List; *Nat. Div. List; **CGC List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [aus-soaring] Mailwasher & McAfee.com and a virus Importance: High Courtesy of Mailwasher, I was able to bounce a viral attachment from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any one else received one? Sounds a bit worrying if McAfee.com has been infected. I use Norton. PeterS -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information. -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information.
