Most of the widespread email viruses of the past year stick a fake address
into the From: header of the copies they send out.
Makers of email server antivirus products seem to be choosing to ignore
this fact, and so sending large numbers of messages like this to people
whose machines are not, in fact, infected. (Some include a copy of the
blocked message, complete with live virus, and one of the viruses tried to
look like a bounce message of this sort....)
It's reached the point where the best explanation for AV vendors contining
to do this is that it's free advertising for their products. i.e., spam.
David Gillett
On 17 Apr 2004 at 7:38, Laura Bruzas wrote:
> I received the following email from someone I never emailed.
> What should I do? Thanks in advance.
> Laura Bruzas
>
> Subj: Virus Alert Notification
> Date: 4/17/04 12:49:07 AM Central Daylight Time
> From: [log in to unmask] (Virus Inspector)
> To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] (Tadros, Mike),
> [log in to unmask] (Virus Inspector)
>
> An E-Mail sent from [log in to unmask]
> to [log in to unmask] was infected with the virus
> Win32/Netsky.P.ZIP.Trojan;Win32/Netsky.P.Worm
> and was deleted. Please do not attempt to e-mail
> the sender or recipient !
>
>
>
> PCSOFT's List Owner's:
> Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]>
> Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>
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