New Virus Laden Spam

Creepie

<div class="IPBDescription">Failed delivery notifications</div> My mailbox has been filling up with failed delivery notifcations. Now I think, yikes!, I'm got a trojan that's sending out virii that're getting bounced. So I do a scan, twice, and I'm squeaky clean. I'm also suspicious that the failed notification messages contain the viral attachments - I would expect that if a mail server detects virii in messages and bounces them - it wouldn't include the attachment.

So, is this a new breed of nasty, or is my PC full of trojan ?

Thansal

standard email spoofer

some one got infected
had you email in their list
the virus now randomly matches up emails, ussing one as a spoof.

most mailer daemons just look at the 'from' section (not the 'actualy from section) of the header, so you get all of the bounces.


enjoy <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->

oh, and smack around every one who has your name in their addy book.

Creepie

OK - thanks. Never seen it before so just wanted to make sure I wasn't the source of such crap.

eediot

if you've used a few of the popular virus/trojan/etc scanners and you're still not sure if you're clean, you can always load up ethereal and check your incoming/outgoing for suspicious activity <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->