Re: [PLUG] Does someone have a virus?

[John Lavin <jlavin@linuxtech.com>]

I've been getting a lot of them recently - I posted to debian-boot -
spammers are spoofing your e-mail address and any bounces go back to
you.

Not much you can do here except filter those types of messages into your
spam folder or /dev/null...
-john

Bradley Molnar said:
> Hi All-
> 
> I recently got some returned mail messages that I don't remember sending
> with all of the tell-tale signs of MyDoom (had a message.zip attachment).
> Now, I don't have Mydoom, but, the e-mail it was sent to is the one I only
> use for this mailing list.  Since the virus scans your inbox (and isn't
> itself a spam harvestor) there is a strong possibility that someone on the
> list has this virus.
> 
> If anyone has a dsl from coltfrance.com, you might want to run a virus
> scanner.
> 
> -brad
> 
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