Hi, I am protected by AVG and has an updated vir*s dat file. Is it possible to be infected without even opening an email with attachment? where did it gets its address to send mass mail? I'm not using MS outlook or any other mailer software,just Yahoo mail and I only got about 10 addresses from my address book. And about the 537 lines from my previous mail, I'm very sorry about it..you're right my enter key stuck.. Thanks for the response..
--- Declan Moriarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 08:19:19PM -0800, rhonn > tabanao enlightened us thusly > > Hi LIST, > > The other day, I received a large volume of mail > > mostly with attachment of 63,83,84kb files.It > makes me > > suspecious that it might contain sa malicious code > or > > payload and decided to delete them all. > > Today I also received a lot of bouncing > mail,telling > > me that the destination is not available! > > What worries me is that they/it used my email > address > > in sending mass mail. > > Please help me how to get raid of it. > > Thank you. > > I have deleted 537 lines from this e-mail - is your > return key stuck? > > Some recent virus took an e-mail address at random > from a poor hapless > wondoze user's outlook adress book and used it as > the "from" address. > You may not be sending them at all. > > Presuming you are in windows, > > 1. Double check your own machine for viruses. If you > have no virus > software try www.pspl.com who offer a 30 day free > trial. The usual thing > is you get infected, and the virus takes over, and > e-mails everyone in > your adress book with itself and some crap. > > 2. The information you to find out who is sending it > is in the header. > Setting the option to 'show all headers' if you have > it. What you then > do is look up the IP of the person/thing that sent > it. This is routine > in linux, but messy in windoze. > > Using this approach, and just looking at today's > spam, I came up with > the IP adress 81.11.151.234 (The last "Received > from" entry in the > headers. Looking up 81.11.151.234 with whois gave me > > inetnum: 81.11.144.0 - 81.11.159.255 > netname: PI-BELGIUM > descr: Planet Internet N.V. > descr: Belgian Dial-in Internet Provider > > a lot of detail followed, including an address for > abuse complaints. > > > 3. Make a long range decision between torturing > yourself running away > from viruses and torturing yourself setting up a > reliable secure > operating system instead of windows. > > > -- > > With best Regards, > > > Declan Moriarty. > -- > Author: Declan Moriarty > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 > http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web > hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an > E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of > 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB > CHIPDIR-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed > from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information > (like subscribing). ===== Ronnie B. Tabanao Everything Electronics Services #06 Juan Luna St.,La Castellana,Negros Occidental 6131 Philippines __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ -- Author: rhonn tabanao INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB CHIPDIR-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
