[thelist] Am I infected or what?

[Syed Zeeshan Haider]

Hi Chris,
Liam and Nan, both are right. I also had Klez virus and I also have been
receiving bounced back mails. I could not update my Anti-Virus because
Virus had seized my AV. I downloaded a small (132KB) chunk of anti-virus
from http://www.symantec.com/ and this chunk cleaned my PC very
smoothly. You should do the same.
You must alert your online friends also. Virus on my friends' PC's were
still sending me viruses after the clean-up of Klez virus from my
machine. Then I told them about the virus and they cleaned their
machines too. Now I am not receiving any Viral mails.
You can easily detect the original sender of the viral mails from their
headers. Remember! Return-path gives you the vital information.
Hope this helps.
Syed Zeeshan Haider.
http://syedzeeshanhaider.faithweb.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: NanHarbisonSmith at aol.com
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 12:14:45 EDT
Subject: Re: [thelist] Am I infected or what?
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org

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If you have been getting messages from servers that have bounced email
they
*think* is from you, chances are very good that you have received an
infected
email to, the emails have an attachment, some random file. If you scroll
down
and read the headers of the email you have gotten that is infected, you
can
see the actual email address that the email came from. I have gotten
several
of these infected emails from people (as well as bounced server
messages) and
I have emailed them to tell them that THEY are infected, and they should
do
something about it.
This virus going around right now which is doing these things is the
Klez
virus.
<A
HREF="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52174,00.html">http://
www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52174,00.html</A>
Nan Smith

>
> I have started receiving email bounces from servers saying that I am
> emailing
> viruses.  I have run Norton Antivirus with the latest definitions and
it
> finds
> nothing.  Can someone look at the headers below and see if there is
> something
> fishy?
>
> </cut>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Part of the way some new viruses operate is to spoof the email account
that
> the virus is being sent from. One cunning trick used is to send an
email
> from Person A, but use email address of Person B (that may have been
found
> in person A address book). A victim gets the message and lets the
sender
> know that they had a virus (Person B), but it wasn't them!