Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] OT: someone has a virus

["Olivier Biot" <ethereal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Current viruses spread rapidly thanks to Outlook Express 6.0 which in
an attempt at being user-friendly adds all email addresses to whom you
send an email to your contact list. If an Outlook Express user does
not have a virus scanner or firewall, or the virus definitions are
outdated, then the mail virus once active (e.g. bacause the preview
pane is enabled) picks two contacts from your contact list, and
creates a fake message (containing the virus) which then *appears* to
be sent from the first and sent to the second of the 2 randomly picked
addresses.

The only thing we know is that someone watched an Ethereal mailing
list some time, and posted some messages to this list, and now is
bugged with a virus. Maybe this user is not even subscribed anymore to
one of the Ethereal mailing lists.

Regards,

Olivier

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marc Milgram"


| Someone sent me a window's virus directly to my ethereal mail
address.
| I have only used this email address for ethereal related activites
| (posting to etheral-dev, and listing in files I modified.
|
| Today I received a virus via email.  Here are the interesting
portions
| of the header:
| <snip>
| I tend not to run windows, so this didn't cause me grief.
|
| -Thanks in advance
| -Marc