RE: FN-FORUM Snowhite virus

date posted 21st July 2001 02:22

In Outlook 2000 you right click on a message and choose "OPTIONS..." in the
dropdown menu, a dialogue appears with a text box showing all the headers.
Mind I'd agree that on this score Outlook Express is better allowing one to
view the actual message source attachments and all, all in text.
Nick

http://www.artberry.net





> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of John Arnold
> Sent: 20 July 2001 23:26
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: RE: FN-FORUM Snowhite virus
>
>
> Look at the headers indeed, Bah! - I use Microsoft Outlook. I'm sure there
> *is* a way to look at the email headers in this monstrosity but
> I'm buggered
> if I can be bothered to go and find it.
>
> John
>
> --
> John Arnold [EMAIL REMOVED]
> On The Net http://www.otn.co.uk/
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Derek Clarke
> > Sent: 20 July 2001 17:38
> > To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Snowhite virus
> >
> >
> > Ask your brother to look closely at the header and compare it with an
> > email that did come from you.
> >
> > If the routes are completely different, then you've found a
> > cunning little
> > virus indeed.
> >
> > Email headers are easy to forge, so it could have come from someone else
> > and claimed it was from you.
> >
> > It's still likely to be someone your brother and you correspond with
> > regularly...
> >
> > [EMAIL REMOVED] (Ruth Arnold) wrote:
> >
> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > My brother emailed me last night saying he had received the 'snowhite
> > > and
> > > the severn dwarves' virus from me. That is, it was my email address in
> > > the
> > > header as the sender.
> > >
> > > I've virus scanned my entire C drive with Mcafee online and there's no
> > > trace
> > > of it. I've also done a search for all the .dat files that can come
> > > along
> > > with it and have found none of them. My wininit.ini file is zero k and
> > > my
> > > wsock32.dll doesn't appear to have been modified recently.
> > >
> > > Have any of you guys got the snowhite virus lately? Any ideas where it
> > > might
> > > be hiding? I certainly don't have any of the classic symptoms, apart
> > > from
> > > this email that apparently came from me.
> > >
> > > I'm stumped!
> > >
> > > Any advice much appreciated....
> > >
> > > ruth arnold
> > > spacehoppa.com
> >
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