Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5100 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 07 June 2004 04.39, Mas Hangga wrote:
> Hehehe.....on Saturday and Sunday, I was at home and my office computer is
> shutdown, but there is a notification today from other mail server, that my
> computer send viruses on Saturday, june 5th 2004.

<snip>
> Received: from unknown (HELO mail01.sg.schneider-electric.com)
<snip rest of virus complaint>

It's difficult to say with certainty exactly what happened here, but there is 
one scenario that I can easily see as likely here:

Some virus was sent by someone to schneider-electric, with a forged sender 
address, to make it look like you. This is very very common with viruses. And 
most virus scanners are brain dead. They believe the from-address 100%. This 
would mean that the virus most likely came from someone who has your address 
in his/her address book, whose machine is infected

In any event, the virus it complained about was an .exe. A windows virus. Why 
did you ever doubt it.

Trust me on this one, if there ever is a linux virus as severe as you 
described, Microsoft will take out full page, front page ads in every major 
newspaper in the world. You will *not* be able to miss it

So far it hasn't happened. Odds are it never will