technical question: help, help, help

2003-08-31 Thread Michael Perelman
The blaster worm seems to be coming from my address. I use Norton anti-virus. I have loaded the MS stuff to get rid of the worm. Norton finds no sign of it. Could someone be spoofing my machine? Is there something else I should do? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State

Re: technical question: help, help, help

2003-08-31 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Michael, Never mind the machine. Love gives you grace, in trillions of different ways. People will help you, don't worry. Not in the way of Amazing grace but in true grace, real grace, the way things really are. Just look and see. And then think. Do not act like an actor might. Respectfully,

Re: technical question: help, help, help

2003-08-31 Thread Paul
I'm no expert but...I know of one machine that had the worm and Norton DID find it. So maybe someone is spoofing. To get rid of the worm go to (note this is NOT the MS site which just closes the security hole but leaves the worm there)

Re: technical question: help, help, help

2003-08-31 Thread Louis Proyect
I'm no expert but...I know of one machine that had the worm and Norton DID find it. So maybe someone is spoofing. Worms fake email addresses. I get about 25 messages a day from people I've never heard of telling me that I sent somebody SOBIG or Blaster. There's nothing you can do about it.

Re: technical question: help, help, help

2003-08-31 Thread Carrol Cox
I'm getting them from all over the place -- including an address that no longer exists: [EMAIL PROTECTED] And I'm getting returned mail that I never sent. So is everyone else I think. I don't know what the technicalities are, but it is indeed spoofing various addresses that are not themselves

Re: technical question: help, help, help

2003-08-31 Thread Tom Walker
Michael, I'm getting 100s of virus emails a day plus a large number of undelivered mail notices for email I didn't send. None of it comes from my machine because it uses a pine mailer on a unix server that I access through telnet. So obviously my return address has been forged. I've also received