On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 23:43, Brad Helden wrote: > Today's e-mail included a nice attempt to send a virus to me with the > sender listed as a Vic Park car-yard. I contacted the yard and warned > the owner what had taken place
Please avoid replying to these messages, or trying to inform the apparent sender about them. The virus picks random To: and From: addresses from the infected user's address book, so all you're doing is replying to a RANDOM THIRD PARTY and telling them they have a virus they don't in fact have. The real problem is an unknown 3rd computer on the 'net that is only identifiable by it's IP address in the Received: headers. Since the user is probably on a dynamic dial-up IP address, this address may not even be accurate. All you know is that a computer with IP address [x] at time [x] sent you a virus. Yay. Mass-mailing worms and trojans have been doing this spoofing for a few years now. The best thing to do is ignore the messages. If you run a mail server, please reconfigure it so that it doesn't bounce infected mail but silently deletes it or notifies only the _recipient_, because at present bounces are becoming more of a problem than the original viri. Craig Ringer
