What the Heck? [Fwd: WARNING: YOU MAY HAVE A VIRUS]
All, I am using Netscape email on SuSE linux. Yesterday I received a torrent of "returned mail undeliverable" messages and another note (below) telling me that I have the Klex virus. Given my configuration I do not think this possible. Also I checked my "sent" mail folder and find nothing unexpected. Not to mention the bounced addresses do not appear in my address book. So am I right to assume that my address was spoofed on another's machine most likely a outlook/windows user on a email list? Bill I REMOVED the unknown email address in the attachment. ------------------------ ATTACHMENT ---------------------------- The virus software on mail.ev1.net has reported that you sent a virus with the subject "Re:your password" to: b[REMOVED]j@mail.ev1.net. The E-mail containing the virus has been removed to prevent further damage. the W32/Klez.h@MM virus !!! was found in file: Unknown File
* Bill Burton
All,
I am using Netscape email on SuSE linux.
Yesterday I received a torrent of "returned mail undeliverable" messages and another note (below) telling me that I have the Klex virus. Given my configuration I do not think this possible. Also I checked my "sent" mail folder and find nothing unexpected.
Not to mention the bounced addresses do not appear in my address book.
So am I right to assume that my address was spoofed on another's machine most likely a outlook/windows user on a email list?
Yes, there's YAOV out there faking mail. I've been accused from a lot of systems that I've sent virus, but it was just other people who have me in their Outlook (Express) addressbooks. That is why I hate M$. Not the fact that they are big, makes lots of money, bashes Linux, uses closed source, killing competetors en masse etc. Just the mere fact that their software is so crappy. -- Mads Martin Jørgensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort?" -- A. P. J.
Mads Martin Jørgensen wrote:
Yes, there's YAOV out there faking mail.
What's a YAOV?
That is why I hate M$. Not the fact that they are big, makes lots of money, bashes Linux, uses closed source, killing competetors en masse etc.
Just the mere fact that their software is so crappy.
You forgot stifles innovation. ;-) Bill
* Bill Burton
Yes, there's YAOV out there faking mail.
What's a YAOV?
Yet Another Outlook Virus -- Mads Martin Jørgensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort?" -- A. P. J.
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Bill Burton
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Mads Martin Jørgensen