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Geek Culture / Don't open any emails from me

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Dave J
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Posted: 8th Aug 2004 14:30
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Well I finally got my server back up and running so my email's working again, unfortunately I just received this email:

Quote: "This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

mussi@apollostudio.nl
This message has been rejected because it has
a potentially executable attachment "Cat.cpl"
This form of attachment has been used by
recent viruses or other malware.
If you meant to send this file then please
package it up as a zip file and resend it.

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------

Return-path: <Exeat@Designex.net>
Received: from [200.187.245.140] (helo=gba.org)
by s003.2uhosting.nl with smtp (Exim 4.24)
id 1BtaZR-000FEE-F5
for mussi@apollostudio.nl; Sun, 08 Aug 2004 01:25:50 +0200
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 20:25:51 -0300
To: "Mussi" <mussi@apollostudio.nl>
From: "Exeat" <Exeat@Designex.net>
Subject: Re:
Message-ID: <eqidzyerpgavhifsnrf@apollostudio.nl>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="--------hmwhcekztakfexmqbaub"

----------hmwhcekztakfexmqbaub
Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<html><body>
>Animals<br>

<br>
</body></html>

----------hmwhcekztakfexmqbaub
Content-Type: plain/text;
name="Norton AntiVirus Deleted1.txt"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Norton AntiVirus Deleted1.txt"

Tm9ydG9uIEFudGlWaXJ1cyByZW1vdmVkIHRoZSBhdHRhY2htZW50OiBDYXQuY3BsLg0KVGhl
IGF0dGFjaG1lbnQgd2FzIGluZmVjdGVkIHdpdGggdGhlIFczMi5CZWFnbGUuQUdAbW0gdmly
dXMu
----------hmwhcekztakfexmqbaub--

"


So I'm guessing I have a virus that is automatically emailing people on my Outlook address. Coincidentally I actually did a virus scan this morning but for some odd reason it error'd out and didn't finish so I'll have to try another fairly soon.

Anyway, if you've received any emails from my address (Exeat@Designex.net) then don't open it because it'll most likely be a virus. Just warning you and sorry, this is the first virus I've gotten.


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Plastico
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Posted: 8th Aug 2004 14:32
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i get those all the time, and I have called people about it, they tell me its nothing to worry about...
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Posted: 8th Aug 2004 16:22
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if your av errored out then update and try again, if you still get errors then get another AV, some virii will disable any AV they find (or try to), antivirus software should protect it`self against that sort of thing, another exe trying to close the AV? surely thats not legit? how hard would that be to spot if the AV was any good?.

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Dave J
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Posted: 8th Aug 2004 17:50
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Well I already have the latest update so I tried again and it worked this time without any problems (must have been a one off before). Anyway, Norton AV reported no virii at all so I decided to use the net to find a way to manually remove the 'Cat.cpl' virus or 'Bagle' worm, anyway, I followed the steps and there were no signs of it in my registry or in the directories it apparently install itself into. My conclusion:

Someone else has the virus and has my email and Mussi's in their address book and so it emailed Mussi with my email spoofed as the 'From' address and that's why I got the Mailer Daemon error when it didn't get through. Oh well, as long as I know I'm safe.


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