[wellylug] virus complaint to me

David Antliff dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz
Fri Nov 26 19:02:12 NZDT 2004


On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Persian wrote:
> I got this mail today, needless to say I have never heard of the 
> intended recipient, also there is nothing in my outbox. I have RH9 and 
> mutt is it possible I have this virus?


You must be new here. Welcome to the Internet.


Seriously tho, there are (Windows) viruses/worms that propagate themselves 
as if they were sent from other addresses found in the infected host's 
address book. Chances are, someone who knows you (and has you as a 
contact) has the virus and it sent itself to someone else 'as you'. This 
was rejected by a filter somewhere and bounced back to you, since it 
looked like you sent it.

I sincerely doubt you have a virus, or that you even had anything to do 
with the original email.

Also, Windows viruses and trojans cannot normally infect Linux. There's 
anecdotal evidence to suggest running 'Wine' can propagate them in certain 
circumstances, but I've never actually heard any hard reports of this 
happening myself.


-- 
David.




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