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ilovepiano

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Jul 9, 2002
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This has happened occasionally in the past, but I've had a few over the weekend.

I get an Email from MAIL DELIVERY SUBSYSTEM saying that an Email I've sent has not been delivered. But I haven't sent any Email to the address that is shown, and there's nothing in me "sent" folder.

Then today I get one from POSTMASTER entitled WARNING YOU MAY HAVE A VIRUS.....

The Declude Virus software on mail.safeserve.com has reported that you
sent an E-mail to matthew@psk.co.uk, containing the W32/Netsky.Q@mm
virus in the
message.pif attachment. The subject of the E-mail was "Delivery Failed
(matthew@psk.co.uk)".
The E-mail containing the virus has been quarantined to prevent further
damage.

If you need help to remove the virus, please contact Safeserve Support
in London
telephone: +44 (0)20 7349 1575
fax: +44 (0)20 7349 1574

For Virus and SPAM free email services, mailto:admin@safeserve.com

Headers Follow:
Received: from psk.co.uk [82.2.197.68] by mail.safeserve.com with ESMTP
(SMTPD32-7.15) id AC481DD000A2; Tue, 09 Nov 2004 13:55:20 +0000
From: foxrambadger@yahoo.co.uk
To: matthew@psk.co.uk
Subject: Delivery Failed (matthew@psk.co.uk)
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 13:55:31 +0000
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/related;
type="multipart/alternative";
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_001B_01C0CA81.7B015D10"
X-Priority: 1
X-MSMail-Priority: High
Message-Id: <200411091355162.SM03676@psk.co.uk>


I'm up to date with all virus software and my PC did a full scan when I was out at work on Saturday night. Is this just a load of spam shit, or is it anything to worry about?
 
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cam

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Mar 30, 2003
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In a world of my own
Basically what a virus does is mask itself as someone else in an address book

lets say person A, B and C are all sat at home

person a gets A virus

Person B and C are also in person A's address book

The virus sends itself out to person B and C cause they are in the address book

however if the virus says its from person A then person B and C will tell person A they have a virus and person A will clean his machine

so the virus sends itself to person B and C but to person B it pretends person C is sending it and to person C it pretends B is sending it, thus meaning the person with the virus A is not getting contacted about the virus at all and the virus can continue to run on there machine.

Thats why someone who has your email address in there address book who has the virus is sending the virus out to everyone in that address book (well there not but the virus is) but pretending that it is from you, so no one replies telling the person they have a virus.

duno if thats clear or not, but thats the way it works lol
 


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