[wellylug] Sent mail going to unassigned recipient - Linz

[Jethro Carr]

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 23:39, Lindsay wrote:
> Is it possible I have a virus or Trojan?
> 
> I sent an email to a PC-Helpers list (for Windows users) and a bcc copy
> to a local friend, using Evolution.   A third party received this email
> which he realized wasn't for him and he contacted me immediately.
> Would you say this was a viral problem as I am using Ubuntu Linux only,
> on this PC?

no, it's not a viral problem - I am unaware of any working viruses for
linux. The only ones I've heard of, were experiments. (which failed to
find any major weakness), and one for apache which exploited a flaw,
that got fixed ages ago.

It seems a bit strange - I'm not aware of any bugs with evolution that
does that. It was most likely a user error. Are all the email addresses
you sent the email to correct?

Was the 3rd party someone in your address book? If so, you might have
accidently selected his name as well. Or, if it isn't you might have
spelt the list address wrong, or someone on the list sent it to someone
who didn't know what it was for.

> 
> I am about to download Avast anti-virus just in case, but felt I'd get a
> few opinions first.  Also, I do not know how to install Avast (which has
> a Linux version) on my Ubuntu PC, so will require so help with doing
> that after I download it via Firefox.

I highly doubt Avast anti-virus will find anything, but if it makes you
feel better, go ahead. :-)


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