Odd email from Shrapnel

geoschmo · #1 June 25th, 2002, 02:53 PM

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 ]

Gryphin · #2 June 25th, 2002, 06:37 PM

I support about 100 Users. At least 2 per month get the same kind of email notice.
It always turns out that someone they know has the Klez virus on their home PC.

capnq · #3 June 25th, 2002, 11:15 PM

I've stopped counting how many copies of Klez I've gotten; must be over a dozen by now.

The weirdest one claimed it was mailed from the PBW server, during the time that the server was offline with a dead motherboard.

The most annoying one was bounced to me because it couldn't be delivered to the intended address.

Baron Munchausen · #4 June 25th, 2002, 11:21 PM

Boy, I must be a real net.hermit since I've only gotten one copy of the Klex virus ever... I guess nobody has my email address.

[ June 25, 2002, 22:22: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

Will · #5 June 26th, 2002, 03:45 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Boy, I must be a real net.hermit since I've only gotten one copy of the Klex virus ever... I guess nobody has my email address.

I haven't gotten any. Of course, I rarely get e-mailed, and those that do e-mail me don't quite understand the concept of "Address Book". Or of "Operating System" and "Internet Browser" for that matter... :�

Gandalph · #6 June 26th, 2002, 06:10 AM

My klez experience is down to 2 per day now that I have convinced everyone I know to get clean. At the peak of my experience with klez in my circle of contacts, I got as many as 7 per day.

disabled · #7 June 26th, 2002, 03:45 PM

For about a week solid two weeks back I was bombarded by different Versions of Klez. I deleted them all.