yeah I understand how easy it is to do stuff like that. But I used to rarely get these e-mails and now I got 10 in 24 hours. Just wondering if I should be concerned, or at least if there is anything I can do because if this is temporary it is damn annoying.
Phil Anderson wrote: > It's being sent with forged email headers - stuff like this goes around all the time. press H in pine to view the full headers and look at IP it originated from, you'll see it's probably not wam. > > it's trivially easy to forge the headers and make the email look like it's coming from somewhere else. some clients will warn you about this because the domain of the sender doesn't match the DNS records of the sender. > > -phil > > On 11/24/05, Aaron Silverman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ever since yesterday I've gotten like 10 e-mails, all with the > top saying: > > WARNING!!! (from md1.mail.umd.edu) > The following message attachments were flagged by the > antivirus scanner: > Attachment [2.2] mail.zip, virus infected: W32/Sober-Z. > Action taken: deleted > > And the subjects are stuff like Mail_Delivery_Failed, > smtp_mail failed, smtp mail failed. The senders seem bogus > like " [EMAIL PROTECTED]" and "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (I don't even > use hotmail!) And I have a few with subjects "Registration > Confirmation" and then one last one that is just blatant virus > talking about use attachment to download videos of Paris Hilton. > > I looked up the virus and it seems to only infect Windows > systems. However, does this mean my umd mail account is > hacked, or the sent mail failed is just more virus trickery. > Maybe a bunch of servers with my address in their book got > infected? Have you guys been getting a similar surge of these > e-mails? What do you all think? > > - Aaron > >
