Members Boom Posted April 21, 2004 Members Share Posted April 21, 2004 I keep getting these emails from native instruments that say I'm emailing them viruses. What's up with that? This is my junk hotmail account. My PC itself and my real email account seem to be clean. Sometimes I get an email to my hotmail account that is a blatant attempt to send my a virus that has some audio related subjuct like "korg ms200" with an attatchment. Damn M$ email. Any computer/IT gurus know what causes this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ornis Posted April 21, 2004 Members Share Posted April 21, 2004 One (rather certain) possibility is that someone who has your email address is spreading viruses. Several of these fake the sender addresses by using random addresses from the victims address book.For example - the virus scans the (MS Outlook) mailbox on the victims computer, takes a random subject line, chooses a random recipient (to) and a random address as fake sender (from), sends the message and the recipient gets the message which looks reasonable. Quite a few people tend to open such ok looking messages coming from known people, and the virus is delivered again.... and again... /o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sinner6 Posted April 21, 2004 Members Share Posted April 21, 2004 a free online virus scan is available here http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp Boom, ornis is right....someone you know has the virus. The link above is not for you as much as the public at large, do a scan at least weekly guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members noonehere Posted April 21, 2004 Members Share Posted April 21, 2004 If you know what "raw" or "headers" are, you can inspect the bounces to see where the email originated. Chances are that NI is just using an email proxy that scans and bounces suspect emails. Since your email address is listed as the "from/Reply To", you get the Virus response. Don't sweat it, just delete. Unless you're geeky and feel like solving the hostname/IP mystery revealed in the previously mentioned raw data / headers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Yoozer Posted April 21, 2004 Members Share Posted April 21, 2004 http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/ is also recommended - it found 140 dormant ones Housecall missed . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mytee2.0 Posted April 21, 2004 Members Share Posted April 21, 2004 I use panda and love it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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