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Re: Virus Alert: Netsky.B spread by lugnet's mail service!
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:04:22 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Tamyra Teed wrote:
What is happening is the virus is picking an address you'd trust, it's not
really coming from lugnet.  I have to keep trying to explain this at work to
the users when it happens :)

In this case, I really doubt that.

Virus scanners with up to date def's are your best friend in this day and
age.


Of course I know that, but the virus has been known by Symantec for less than
three hours when it hit my mailbox. And the update from Symantec arrived just a
couple of minutes ago... :( I had to clean it with Trend Micro's "housecall"
online antivirus scan engine.

/Tore



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  Re: Virus Alert: Netsky.B spread by lugnet's mail service!
 
(...) Well, the definitive answer would be to post the email headers (not the virii and/or any attachments) and lets see where it came from. If you don't want to post them, then email the headers to me and I'll have a look (since my email comes in (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)

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  RE: Virus Alert: Netsky.B spread by lugnet's mail service!
 
What is happening is the virus is picking an address you'd trust, it's not really coming from lugnet. I have to keep trying to explain this at work to the users when it happens :) (at least with some of the current virii that are out there right (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)

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