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RE: Viruses being transported with Cygwin messages
- From: "Polley Christopher W" <PolleyChristopherW at JohnDeere dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 08:23:10 -0500
- Subject: RE: Viruses being transported with Cygwin messages
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Robert,
It's probably not your system that is infected -- Bugbear, like KLEZ, uses
addresses harvested from the infected system in spoofed "From" headers.
The only way I've been able to guess at the real identity for
bugbear-infected mail that I've received (from friends/family) is to search
through my mailbox for the first Received header's domain, and from that,
look for a common association with the name in the "from" line. On a
mailing list, that wouldn't work very well.
Warm regards,
Chris
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gregg C Levine [mailto:drwho8@worldnet.att.net]
>Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 8:38 PM
>To: Robert Collins
>Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
>Subject: Re: Viruses being transported with Cygwin messages
>
>
>Hello from Gregg C Levine
>Gladly, if I can find it. It's a message in ugly HTML format,
>and it arrived
>at my other address.
>Gregg C Levine drwho8@worldnet.att.net
>"Oh my!" The Second Doctor's nearly favorite phrase.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Robert Collins" <rbcollins@cygwin.com>
>To: "Gregg C Levine" <drwho8@worldnet.att.net>
>Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
>Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 4:36 PM
>Subject: Re: Viruses being transported with Cygwin messages
>On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 05:04, Gregg C Levine wrote:
>> Hello from Gregg C Levine
>> Folks, don't roar at me, but I am seeing a number of
>messages arrive here,
>> infected. One came with a message via Robert Collins, twice,
>
>Can you point me at the message with the virus? And the virus? I email
>from UNIX, so am *very* surprised at this.
>
>
>
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