Author: martin fierz
Date: 07:46:07 08/28/03
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On August 27, 2003 at 19:37:17, Eduard Nemeth wrote: >Virus-patch oder ein VIRUS? (Attention) > >Was ist davon zu halten? > >Ich bekam soeben eine eMail (angeblich von Microsoft, doppelt) >Mit diesem Inhalt: > >Dear friend , use this Internet Explorer patch now! >There are dangerous virus in the Internet now! >More than 500.000 already infected! > >Der Virenscanenner meines email Anbieters meldete dabei dass sich >Auf dem beigefügten angeblichen Patch (etwa 100 KB groß) >Folgender Virus befindet: > > >Virus patch.exe: W95/Dumaro.A 9246 > >Subjekt: > >Use this patch immediately ! > >Emailadresse: > >Von: "Microsoft" security@microsoft.com > >Wer kann dazu etwas sagen? hi eduard, viruses can "spoof" addresses; of course ****@microsoft.com is a specially interesting target for the virus programmer... the currently very active worm sobig.F does this too, it takes two email addresses from an infected computer and sends an email to the first address which seems to have been sent from the second address. so it turns out that you can receive email saying that you have sent emails with viruses in them, even if it was someone else's fault... cheers martin
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