RE: FN-FORUM Snowhite virus

date posted 20th July 2001 23:30

Look at the headers indeed, Bah! - I use Microsoft Outlook. I'm sure there
*is* a way to look at the email headers in this monstrosity but I'm buggered
if I can be bothered to go and find it.

John

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John Arnold [EMAIL REMOVED]
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Derek Clarke
> Sent: 20 July 2001 17:38
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Snowhite virus
>
>
> Ask your brother to look closely at the header and compare it with an
> email that did come from you.
>
> If the routes are completely different, then you've found a
> cunning little
> virus indeed.
>
> Email headers are easy to forge, so it could have come from someone else
> and claimed it was from you.
>
> It's still likely to be someone your brother and you correspond with
> regularly...
>
> [EMAIL REMOVED] (Ruth Arnold) wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > My brother emailed me last night saying he had received the 'snowhite
> > and
> > the severn dwarves' virus from me. That is, it was my email address in
> > the
> > header as the sender.
> >
> > I've virus scanned my entire C drive with Mcafee online and there's no
> > trace
> > of it. I've also done a search for all the .dat files that can come
> > along
> > with it and have found none of them. My wininit.ini file is zero k and
> > my
> > wsock32.dll doesn't appear to have been modified recently.
> >
> > Have any of you guys got the snowhite virus lately? Any ideas where it
> > might
> > be hiding? I certainly don't have any of the classic symptoms, apart
> > from
> > this email that apparently came from me.
> >
> > I'm stumped!
> >
> > Any advice much appreciated....
> >
> > ruth arnold
> > spacehoppa.com
>
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