E-mail Question

[th'engineer]

Just a simple question received an e-mail from an NTL Account with a virus in it .

It was to a none Ntl e-mail so e-mailed the sender back with the details but he says he never sent it.

Yet it arrived in my account on monday sent sunday.

Is this possible that something can take over his mail account

[nfs6600]

Originally Posted by th'engineer

Is this possible that something can take over his mail account

Yup. Email him again and tell him to make sure that all his virus definitions are upto date and have ti scan emails before they are sent/received

[trebor]

it is likely it has come from somebody who has his address in his contacts list and the from address has just been spoofed. if you post the complete headers it might help to answer your question

[Toto]

Originally Posted by trebor

it is likely it has come from somebody who has his address in his contacts list and the from address has just been spoofed. if you post the complete headers it might help to answer your question

Confirming what Trebor says. Many new viruses use the addresses on the victims machine not only as a new source of infection, but also to spoof the senders address. This causes confusion.

Also, many viruses also harvest those addresses and pass them to spamming lists, hence the increase in spam to addresses who's owners are extremely careful not to announce their email addresses to the whole world to avoid spam........there's simply no hiding is there

[Stephen]

I used to get these emails to my hotmail account from other hotmail users I did not know, I realised straight away that it was a virus. It took a few months for it to stop. Of course the people they were coming from had no idea they were sending them.

[Toto]

Originally Posted by DarthYoda

I used to get these emails to my hotmail account from other hotmail users I did not know, I realised straight away that it was a virus. It took a few months for it to stop. Of course the people they were coming from had no idea they were sending them.

Yup, what's interesting is that many of these viruses are mass mailing worms, that don't use the infected clients software. So while they are online, the mass mailer beavers a way, eating up system resources and bandwidth. Calls to ISP's are then made about why internet connections have slowed down, or PC rebooting when online, and nobody is any the wiser.