RE: Hijacked email address

One who has Donn's email adresse is infected with Worm.Bagle.A3 (aka W32/[email protected]), and sends his address in the from: field, Donn ask your friends to check their virusscanners.


se also http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=101059

>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected]
>[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Sinister Midget
>Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 10:19 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [debian-knoppix] Hijacked email address
>
>
>On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 12:54:20 -0600
>Donn Washburn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hey Groups;
>> 
>> Please note that recently my email address has been hijacked and is
>> sending out a Microshaft file.
>> 
>> One is subject ->  Freedom for everyone
>> and comes with "babebbb.zip".
>> 
>> I did not send out nor own a machine that even run that sorry OS.
>> 
>> Please delete any .bat, .zip, .exe, .inf and/or .com or any other MS
>> executable file that comes from my email address.
>
>Probably courtesy of one of your friends who is addicted to proprietary
>stuff that does things like that.
>
>Your situation is one reason why I strongly advocate using disposable
>email addresses. Once they get creamed by viruses and/or spam, junk 'em
>and use another.
>
>-- 
>CodeRed: An original Microsoft web crawler.
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