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.
This makes me very mad. I don't have a single computer running Windows, and I highly doubt if Balsa can execute MS macros <LOL>.
I'm proud of the fact that I don't propogate viruses.
Happens with me, too. If a Windows box is infected, the virus searches nearly all files on the hard disk (not only the address book) for mail adresses and sends mails with each one having two randomly chosen but different addresses, one for the sender ("From:") and one for the destination ("To:"). The virus runs its own SMTP implementation, so that there is no provider rejecting the mail with wrong "From:" addresses. At the destination it is not recognized that the "From:" address is wrong and the error message is simply sent to the address in the "From:" header. You probably got many more addresses from the virus itself than error messages from others who received the virus.
See
http://hq.mcafeeasap.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=100561
for more info about the virus.
Anyone knows a way how to find the box where the virus e-mails (not the error messages, the mails from the virus itself) come from? I would like to inform the users of the infected machines, as these mails are annoying.
Till
