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Emails from myself Charlie_Brown 09-04-2005
Posted by =?Utf-8?B?Q2hhcmxpZV9Ccm93bg== on September 4, 2005, 4:43 am
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I have received an email from myself that I didnt initiate. I assume that I
have a virus of some sort on my system. Can somebody pls tell me how to get
rid of it.

Posted by N. Miller on September 4, 2005, 5:08 am
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On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 01:43:06 -0700, Charlie_Brown wrote:

> I have received an email from myself that I didnt initiate. I assume that I
> have a virus of some sort on my system. Can somebody pls tell me how to get
> rid of it.

Do you have an anti virus program running? Is it up to date? That is the
only sure way to deal with a viral infection. However...

Spammers and viruses can forge any email address they want as the sender.
Inspecting the message headers would tell you the actual source of that
message. If none of the IP addresses in the Received header lines could
rationally be yours, then the message did not originate from your computer.
Spammers use that trick because many people put their own email address
into their Address Book as a way of white listing the address; by forging
the recipient as the sender, the spammer (or virus) stands a good chance of
breaking through filters.

Update your AV, and then scan your system. However, don't expect to see
evidence of infection; it is highly likely that your email address is
merely being abused.

--
Norman
~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta
~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain
~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint

Posted by =?Utf-8?B?Q2hhcmxpZV9Ccm93bg== on September 4, 2005, 5:58 am
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"N. Miller" wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 01:43:06 -0700, Charlie_Brown wrote:
>
> > I have received an email from myself that I didnt initiate. I assume that I
> > have a virus of some sort on my system. Can somebody pls tell me how to get
> > rid of it.
>
> Do you have an anti virus program running? Is it up to date? That is the
> only sure way to deal with a viral infection. However...
>
> Spammers and viruses can forge any email address they want as the sender.
> Inspecting the message headers would tell you the actual source of that
> message. If none of the IP addresses in the Received header lines could
> rationally be yours, then the message did not originate from your computer.
> Spammers use that trick because many people put their own email address
> into their Address Book as a way of white listing the address; by forging
> the recipient as the sender, the spammer (or virus) stands a good chance of
> breaking through filters.
>
> Update your AV, and then scan your system. However, don't expect to see
> evidence of infection; it is highly likely that your email address is
> merely being abused.
>
> --
> Norman
> ~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta
> ~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain
> ~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint
> Thanks Norman. I use AVG and update it daily. I also scan daily. Having said
that (and at the risk of displaying my ignorance) my technical skills are fairly
limited and I dont know how to check "the IP addresses in the Received header
lines..." I use Outlook 2003 for mail. Appreciate your help.

Posted by Jim Macklin on September 4, 2005, 9:34 am
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In OUTLOOK, select the message, right click---OPTIONS, see
the Internet headers in the bottom of the box, below is a
sample (data XXXX out).. In Outlook Express select
properties to see same data for routing.


Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON.sunlight.wichita.edu by
sunlight.wichita.edu
for
XXXXXXXXXXXX; Thu, 08 May 2003 03:58:04 -0500 (CDT)
Received: from BAY0-SMTP05.adinternal.hotmail.com
(bay0-smtp05.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.241.112])
by sunlight.wichita.edu (PMDF V6.1 #30593)
XXXXXXXXXXXXX;
Thu, 08 May 2003 03:58:03 -0500 (CDT)
Received: from selfbuiltsept02 ([XXXXXXXXXX])
by BAY0-SMTP05.adinternal.hotmail.com with Microsoft
SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5600)
; Thu, 08 May 2003 01:55:37 -0700
Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 03:55:37 -0500
From: Jim Macklin <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
Subject: test pdf email
X-Originating-IP: [65.231.142.174]
To: jim macklin <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
MIME-version: 1.0
X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158
Content-type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="Boundary_(ID_p6cHysuumtuvZKxkJ9wEtw)"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-priority: Normal
X-Originating-Email: [XXXXXXXXXXXX@msn.com]
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 May 2003 08:55:38.0524 (UTC)
FILETIME=[98AF15C0:01C3153F]


wrote in message
|
|
| "N. Miller" wrote:
|
| > On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 01:43:06 -0700, Charlie_Brown wrote:
| >
| SNIP| > Thanks Norman. I use AVG and update it daily. I
also scan daily. Having said that (and at the risk of
displaying my ignorance) my technical skills are fairly
limited and I dont know how to check "the IP addresses in
the Received header lines..." I use Outlook 2003 for mail.
Appreciate your help.



Posted by Patrick Dickey on September 4, 2005, 6:03 am
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N. Miller wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 01:43:06 -0700, Charlie_Brown wrote:
>
>
>>I have received an email from myself that I didnt initiate. I assume that I
>>have a virus of some sort on my system. Can somebody pls tell me how to get
>>rid of it.
>
>
> Do you have an anti virus program running? Is it up to date? That is the
> only sure way to deal with a viral infection. However...
>
> Spammers and viruses can forge any email address they want as the sender.
> Inspecting the message headers would tell you the actual source of that
> message. If none of the IP addresses in the Received header lines could
> rationally be yours, then the message did not originate from your computer.
> Spammers use that trick because many people put their own email address
> into their Address Book as a way of white listing the address; by forging
> the recipient as the sender, the spammer (or virus) stands a good chance of
> breaking through filters.
>
> Update your AV, and then scan your system. However, don't expect to see
> evidence of infection; it is highly likely that your email address is
> merely being abused.
>

Also, if someone who has your e-mail address in their address book has a
virus, it could be spoofing your e-mail address, and sending it to you.
Usually the virus will make sure it's not sending it to the same
address as the "From" one, but you never know for sure.



--
http://www.pats-computer-solutions.com
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