On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 19:00, Austin wrote: > Hey, > I keep getting these messages from virus scanners on various mail servers all > over the world saying that I tried to send a virus infected email through > their mail server. It's the sobig.f virus, which is written in MSVC, and > propogates through windows, so I don't see how I could have sent it to anyone, > but they attach a copy of it with my return address.
I've had exactly the same thing and feel equally as angry as you, but try this as an idea. You are getting these from systems that may have been set up by MSCEs, whatever that means. They have been set up using the defaults supplied by the suppliers, because these poor souls know no better, who really have seen an opportunity to spam the world with news of their wonderful anti-virus product, under the guise of information. One shows actual stupidity, the person whose name appears in the from is certainly not the one who sent the mail, because that's the way the worm works, and the other is nothing more than pure spamming because the creators know that is the case. But without the hype they would not sell there products. I equally take exception to the press reporting, the use of "PCs around the world", "your PC", "your email program" rather than properly reporting i.e. adding the W or M word. -- Dave Cotton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
