O/T Email Virus Warning

[Matthew]

I received this email this morning and the second email I received last week. I have never sent a message to this [email protected]. Is this someone trying to instigate a reply from me, or could my computer be sending out virus' in the emails without me seeing the emails?

 

I am using Norton Anti-virus, running every night, automatically updated the virus definitions with aboxxxxely no warnings. It also scans my incoming email and has reported nothing there. Any suggestions?

 

 

Email #1

 

VIRUS ALERT

 

Our content checker found

virus: Worm.SomeFool.P

in email presumably from you (), to the following recipient:

-> [email protected]

 

Please check your system for viruses,

or ask your system administrator to do so.

 

Delivery of the email was stopped!

 

 

For your reference, here are headers from your email:

------------------------- BEGIN HEADERS -----------------------------

Return-Path:

Received: from servlets.com (dhcp-192-205-215.in2cable.com [203.192.205.215])

by relay5.firstlink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED16A58210

for ; Fri, 7 May 2004 10:15:56 -0600 (MDT)

From: [email protected]

To: [email protected]

Subject: Mail Delivery (failure [email protected])

Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 21:44:04 +0530

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Type: multipart/related;

type="multipart/alternative";

boundary="----=_NextPart_000_001B_01C0CA80.6B015D10"

X-Priority: 3

X-MSMail-Priority: Normal

Message-Id: <[email protected]>

-------------------------- END HEADERS ------------------------------

 

Email #2

 

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The E-WebMail email system has detected a virus in a message delivered for [email protected] from the sender [email protected].

 

The email message that contained the Worm.SomeFool.P virus has been automatically deleted from the system.

[Bullines]

Your address was likely spoofed by a virus (probably Netsky) on someone that is infected and has your name in the addy book. If your definitions are up-to-date, you probably have nothing to worry about. As a backup meansure, check for infection online.

[Hardmill]

I spent the last couple of days fighting a

damn virus. I just re-formated the hard drives

on my desktop and laptop both. Passwords are now

on both so the kids can't touch any more.

I'll let them destroy their PC, what a pain

I normally have the anti-virus off but this time

it was on. And it still screwed me up, whats up

with that .

 

PEACE

[Tim Aydt Prototek Engineering]

Maybe it's that JAWS guy He probably has his own Taliban, or is it Talibanned He probably has a secret plot against the evil forum. Who knows where this will go.

 

I know... I know... I think I'm funnier than I really am.

[Matthew]

Thanks for the reply. I'll do the online check and see what happens.

[MetalMarvels]

Thanks for the link Bullines, I came up green, but it was nice to be able to check it.

 

I like this - wholistic Mastercam forum. Not just Mastercam, but the platform you run it on...

[d00d]

Guess everyone is informed already about the new sasser virus? If not I would do a search on it. I know 3 people hit allready.