On May 8, 2006, at 9:39 AM, Stuart Ungar complained: > I sent the > office an attachment and they are saying that their > computer has been acting up since. When I open up > attachments, they are automatically scanned and my Mac > Mini doesn't open it if it has a virus. So, I don't > know how this can be. She fixed the problem, then > said the next time she opened up an email (just email > no attachment) from me her PC started having problems > again. Can someone who is tech-savy in the group here > shed some light on this.
It is possible for a Mac to send an infected email to a Windows machine. The way this works is if you forward an infected email, or attach an infected file. If you composed your own email and did not attach anything to it, then you're most likely the innocent victim of a coincidence or a flakey virus detection program. A few months back a Windows user claimed I was sending him a virus. It turned out his virus program thought my digital signature was a virus. After he changed from Symantec Antivirus to another brand (Sophos?) the problem vanished. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2398 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060508/5b08d17b/attachment.bin
