The Bugbear virus uses email spoofing, so this has nothing to do with his email
personally. When it infects a computer, it grabs a random email address from
the person's address book and places it into the From area (note
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.bugbear@mm.html).
In this way, it appears that the virus is coming from someone who had nothing
to do with the infection in the first place.
Unfortunately, some virus programs send a notice to the person in the From
area, telling them that they sent the virus. This only leads to confusion,
since the person never sent the email in the first place.
Don't open attachments without knowledge that someone sent one (send them an
email asking if they did send one before opening it). Ensure that you have an
antivirus program running when you do open an attachment, just in case you were
inadvertently sent an infected file. It's just a cost of doing business on the
Internet.
Cheers -
george
--- Andy Schmitt <aschmitt@WARWICK.NET> wrote:
> I don't have your direct email address so I couldn't send it just to you..
> I'm really happy my ISP does this...
> andy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregg Kemp [mailto:gregg.kemp@swipnet.se]
> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 4:33 AM
> Subject: Re: WPPD in Sweden - FYIO
>
>
> This message has been processed by Brightmail(TM) Anti-Virus using
> Symantec's Norton AntiVirus Technology.
>
> readme.exe was infected with the malicious virus W32.Bugbear@mm and has been
> deleted because the file cannot be cleaned.
>
>
> For more information on anti-virus tips and technology, visit
> http://www.brightmail.com/antivirus .
>
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