It is true that an e-mail with a virus can be sent supposedly from a friend. What Paul is saying is that problems can be avoided with a good virus checker whose signatures are updated regularly, every day if necessary.
When you received an e-mail with an attachment, NEVER open the attachment directly from the e-mail. Save the attachment to disk and run the virus checker over it before opening it. Regards Keith ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clare Pascoe Henderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "insights" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 7:31 AM Subject: Re: Emails carrying virus supposedly from Tom > Hi Paul > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > Wouldn't it be more appropriate that the individual have a updated 'Virus > > protection', rater than relaying on someone else to protect their computer > > by insuring their data is clean. After all virus could arrive in all types > > of transmissions 'not just by email with attachments or with out'. > > I don't think you quite understood what Rohan was saying. A lot of > viruses spoof emails (ie. create emails that look real) and insert in > the sender field an address from the address book of the computer that's > infected. That is, if I were infected, emails would start happening > that would appear to be sent by people who are in my address book, even > though those people *aren't* infected. So Rohan wasn't saying that Tom > has caught a virus from a friend, but rather that if a friend of Tom's > had a virus it might be using Tom's email address from his friend's > address book to fill the sender field in the spoof emails it creates. > > As an example, I've been getting emails which have, as the sender, my > own email address and my ex-husband's name! Now he hasn't used that > email address for some 5 years or so (and in fact when he did use it it > always had both our names as sender, not just one of us), and he > certainly doesn't own it now, which means it must be coming either from > someone's (non-updated) address book or some archive or something on the > web. > > > I've enjoyed sandbagging - sleeping, so I'll go back to doing so, all the > > best to the group. > > You could stick around - we like having new people in the discussions :-) > > Clare > *************************************************** > Clare Pascoe Henderson > http://www.clergyabuseaustralia.org > Clergy Sexual Abuse in Australia > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *************************************************** > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > - You are subscribed to the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the message body 'unsubscribe insights-l' (ell, not one (1)) > See: http://nsw.uca.org.au/insights-l-information.htm > ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ - You are subscribed to the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the message body 'unsubscribe insights-l' (ell, not one (1)) See: http://nsw.uca.org.au/insights-l-information.htm ------------------------------------------------------
