Virus heads up......

On Sun, 16 May 2004 16:28:01 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

Probably pretty impossible to tell who, but I have just received a
couple of virus attempts traceable to a user (or a user's address book
acquaintance) of this list. You can probably expect one, too.....

Now that most virus-spreaders use hijacked email addresses, it's impossible
(in my experience) to figure this out.

Heck, I get five "bounces" per day, from people to whom I've never sent an
email. Each one of them says that the message "I" sent had a virus
attached to it.

Has anyone figured a way to catch the *******s that are doing this?


All you can do is send the headers to your ISP abuse department. The
best is if you get the original e-mail in the bounced message as an
attachment. That will have the originating domain, etc...

I had this happen, sent my ISP about 15 headers and a week later
everything had calmed down. I'm not saying it will definately stop
everything, but its your only recourse.

HTH.
z