Somebody posted about someone emailing a
computer virus with an attachment that has
the virus in it, and it could look like a
friend or something well I think it was
sent to me twice, both times I erased it,
but the email was from the "postmaster"
and it says undeliverable mail, but it has
an attachment... You know it when u see
it cuz I didnt even send an email and it
showed up, so just be careful.
Meagan
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Michelle1337
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 04 Aug 2004 Posts: 1739 Location: Houston, Texas
Posted: 08-22-04 12:48pm
Yeah I got that too. I deleted it cuz I
didnt send anything...
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2ferano
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 23 Dec 2003 Posts: 3717
Posted: 08-22-04 18:01pm
Oh that is just wonderful. Yeah, I
usually just delete those things.
Hopefully, I will not forget and open one!
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linuxChique
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 4535
Posted: 08-22-04 20:07pm
Yeah when those postmaster things happen,
its because the virus has gotten in and
has emailed itself to many people from
your computer. When it emails itself to
an invalid email address, the computer
that received the invalid email things you
did it on purpose, so it sends you a
failure notice. It doesn't necessarily
mean that your computer is infected, but
it does mean that you received a virus and
that virus successfully used your computer
to replicate itself.
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tweety12986
Active User, Really EHEALTHy
Joined: 25 Jun 2004 Posts: 772 Location: houston
Posted: 08-22-04 22:31pm
I dont think so though, cuz the delivery
failure postmaster normally says "daemon"
something or other, but this one is
different it could be I dont know though.
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linuxChique
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 4535
Posted: 08-22-04 22:36pm
I thought that's what you were talking
about. They say "mailer-daemon?" I guess
the one you got must have been a virus
spoofing a mailer-daemon email, but its
very easy to make it look _exactly_ the
same, which makes me think maybe this was
a different mail server, and a legitimate
failure notice.
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tweety12986
Active User, Really EHEALTHy
Joined: 25 Jun 2004 Posts: 772 Location: houston
Posted: 08-22-04 22:39pm
Nope... Yahoo has always said mailer
daemon for me... But now its like
postmaster delivery its
like a bootleg postmaster
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Kia
Supporter
Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 6594 Location: Planet Tampaxia,
Posted: 08-23-04 04:13am
I sometimes get postmaster ones ( I think
it depends partly on the receiving server)
and so far the attachment had always been
my own outbound message that couldn't be
delivered. Other than a few at the time
of a really big virus going around when I
was moving and hadn't been online for like
2.5-3months. But they were really obvious
stuff.
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linuxChique
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 4535
Posted: 08-23-04 10:19am
Yeah they won't all be the same. Its not
yahoo that is sending them, its the mail
server for the email address that wasn't
valid.
its
like a bootleg postmaster
