Odd email from Shrapnel

[Fyron]

Umm... I just got this email from intel@shrapnel.com:

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Subject: A IE 6.0 patch
This is a IE 6.0 patch
I wish you would enjoy it.
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It has a 138KB file attached. What gives? Has someone hacked the shrapnel mail server or something?

[ June 25, 2002, 07:00: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Phoenix-D]

Sounds like Shrapnel's mail server got a virus.

Phoenix-D

[Zarix]

It is possible that the headers are faked. For example Klez takes a random address from the adress book of an infected computer. You could check the headers if there is another e-mail adress there.

[Mephisto]

I too would think it was the Klez virus. Shrapnel has nothing to do with it, someone’s machine is infected and this person has Shrapnel in his address book.

[Atrocities]

You know I have been getting a lot of these from differant sources lately. Most are from free-email.

One was about a new web page. A humorus message, a special gift, etc.

I checked with symatric, and they say that there is a rash of new email bugs going around. I even got one from my angelfire account. Oh that was an eye opener.

My system is clean, doubled checked by two virus scan programs and one web based one. I think perhaps someone my have been infected by a virus and simply does not know that they have it yet.

The easy thing to do is get a virus protection program, update it, and run it. Find the virus and kill it.

[ June 25, 2002, 14:50: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[geoschmo]

Again, it's VERY unlikely that the problem is actually with Shrapnels email server. They make their living on the web, and they are completly up to date as far as virus protection and what not I am sure.

Almost certainly it is someone else, one of us that visits shrapnel, that got it. As Zarix and Mephisto point out, some viruses will get addresses from your book and send out emails that appear to come from somewhere else other than your machine. This makes it harder to pinpoint who is actually the source of the virus. If it sent out 50 emails all from me, people would be telling me I have a virus. But if it sends 50 emails from my machine, and puts 50 different return addresses on it, then how will you know they actually came form me? There are ways to tell, but the tendancy is to assume it's really frmo who it says it's from.

Geoschmo

[ June 25, 2002, 13:54: Message edited by: geoschmo ]