[Warty] and Evolution - sent mail going to unassigned recipients - Linz

[Lindsay]

Actually the offending email went to someone on a Linux list and his
address did not appear in the header at all.....?

On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 17:46 +0100, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Lindsay wrote:
> > Is it possible I have a virus or Trojan?
> > 
> > I sent an email to a PC-Helpers list (for Windows users) and a bcc copy
> > to a local friend, using Evolution.   A third party received this email
> > which he realized wasn't for him and he contacted me immediately.
> > Would you say this was a viral problem as I am using Ubuntu Linux only,
> > on this PC?
> > 
> > I am about to download Avast anti-virus just in case, but felt I'd get a
> > few opinions first.  Also, I do not know how to install Avast (which has
> > a Linux version) on my Ubuntu PC, so will require so help with doing
> > that after I download it via Firefox.
> 
> It's much more probable that someone on the PC-Helpers list was
> infected.
> 
> If an e-mail worm relies on social engineering to get run (convincing
> people that they want to open this "document", rather than using bugs in
> the e-mail program), then the body of the e-mail has to look convincing.
> 
> Some recent worms, in an attempt to look plausible, send out copies of
> other incoming e-mails with a copy of the worm attached. They keep the
> "From" headers intact, to make it less obvious who actually has the
> worm.  (That makes it harder for the recipients to warn the user with
> the infection).
> 
> It's possible that the worm got stripped before it reached the third
> party.
> 
> James.
> 
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