Thanks for your help. Jill Rhodes CCSD 15 Stuart R. Paddock Elementary School (847) 963-5859
>>> "Voytek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/03/05 05:47PM >>> <quote who="Ken Foskey"> > On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 14:45 -0600, Jill Rhodes wrote: >> I received this email from one of your members today and it really >> concerned me. My entire computer has been acting funny since I opened >> it. The address of the person who sent it to me is >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am very concerned and want to make sure >> that it did not cause a virus. Can you help me? Also, do you happen to >> why this person would have sent me such an odd message? I have never >> been on your site and don't know anyone with this type of web address. >> Thanks for your help. > > Yes you have opened a trojan, this is nothing to do with the apparent > sender as the virus creates email addresses. In order to combat this if > you have a burner you might try to burn the antivirus CED Chromimum > > http://antesis.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=41〈=en > > If you have doubts about this email then please contact your support > centre and tell them you have a virus. They will react accordingly. Ken, Jill, I just came across this message, which might help explain better Jill's problem to her: (this of course has nothing to do with Iprimus, other than, use their letter in a generic sense) ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Dear Thank you for your e-mail. Virus are one of the biggest problems that many internet users face. If you are not already aware, iPrimus has a Safe Surfing Guide that we recommend all users read, which is available via the link below. http://www.iprimus.com.au/guide-dosanddonts.asp iPrimus also offers spam and anti-virus protection via our iProtect services. For more information on this, please visit the link below. http://www.iprimus.com.au/iProtect/ One of the most common methods of sending a virus is to put either one, or a number of legitimate looking names in the "TO" field, following by email address's in the "Bcc" field which you are unable to see. This makes the e-mail appear to be more legitimate. Virus writers are taking lessons from SPAMMer's, and in many cases they are now working together. CC is an acronym for carbon copy. In order to multiply sending rates, messages composed by bulk mailers will often use a random multiple-recipient CC addressing feature where one message is sent to batches of addresses at a single time. Bcc is an acronym for Blind carbon copy. The receiver of an email cannot see the email address's placed in the Bcc field, which is why it is called blind. In this case you will in all likelihood receive an email that appears to be addressed to someone else's email address, often in the same domain. The basic upshot of this is that with 99.9% certainty, the virus you have received did not originate from were it states it came from. If you are using Microsoft Outlook/Outlook Express, it is very difficult to access the true headers of the email to find out were it originated from. Due to the high number of infected Microsoft Windows computers, it is also a very high resource intensive job to track down these users both from a financial point of view for the ISP concerned, and also the fact that many MS Windows users dont care that they are infected unless if starts causing them more than the normal amount of MS Windows problems. This is way you will also find that ISP's do not try to track down infected MS Windows users, even if they are given accurate information in relation to the original email headers. The best advise we can give you to protect your computer is to ensure that you use a non Microsoft based operating system, or at least remove Outlook/Outlook Express and install a third party email client such as Mozilla ThunderBird. If you have any further queries about our pricing, setup & installation options or contract period please refer to our web site or call us on 1300 85 48 48. If replying via e-mail, please leave your original request included. This is automatically done in most email programs. Regards ================================================================== -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
