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E-Mail Virus from NTL!

  • 28-10-2002 11:28pm
    #1
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭


    Important!

    If you have ever been e-mailed by Anna-Maria Barry at NTL
    beware, her contact book has been infiltrated by a virus which I just recived, its a Screen saver attachment.

    Mike.


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  • #2
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Some viruses can fake from and return to be ANY email address in received, sent, CC, BCC or Address book of the infected victim. Bugbear does this so that you can't warn the person that is infected.

    The attachment can be different type of excutable on each sending. "real" email messages and subjects are extract by the virus which has its own sending SW (SMTP engine) which activates when the victim is online even if they don't open outlook again.

    But there are even "cleverer" evilness.............

    So it probabily wasn't from Anna-Maria Barry at NTL


  • #3
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I sent Anna-Maria an e-mail warning her anyway!

    Mike.


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