RE: Virus from Tom

[Geoff Hurst]

Hi Tom et al,   Almost every current "email borne" virus fakes the sender's address. Many fake mail routing information in the message headers. Many infect an unsuspecting user's machine and transmit themselves from there and further obscure the point of origin.   Often worse than the virus itself is the repicrocating and concatenating cycle of "warnings" and blame that spreads back and forth in the wake of an often minor or even non existent event. Sounds like what happens in the church. Res 84 anyone?   If you are still uncertain then monitor inbound and outbound traffic from your Windows based computer to ensure that it isn't a source or recipient of unwanted content. An excellent tool for this is TCPView from System Internals. (http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/tcpview.shtml)   There are similar tools for other operating systems available.   Geoff From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Stuart Sent: Friday, 23 July 2004 7:08 AM To: 'insights' Subject: Virus from Tom I’ve been alerted on a number of occasions that I sent an email loaded with a virus to the Insights list.   While, of course, I cannot ever be 100% sure, I believe I don't have a virus.  My computer is packed up to the gunnels with protection.  In fact I received the virus loaded email from Insights myself and my virus software alerted me immediately.   I suspect, as virus programs often do these days, that the virus has falsified the sender address.  This is deliberate to frustrate everyone's capacity to alert the REAL owner of the infected computer.   If you had the email on your system it would be interesting to have a look at the address "header" found under options when you right click on the email in your inbox.  It might give a clue to the true source of the infected computer.   Maybe one of our IT listees could help us with this one!   Tom     [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.milman.uniting.com.au Ph: 6862 5502  Mobile: 0427 625 502 14 Bushman St Parkes NSW 2870   'Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable'. I prefer to die living than to live dying! "War is a poor chisel with which to carve out the future." - Martin Luther King, Jr "There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible."  Henry Ford