RE: FN-FORUM Snowhite virus

date posted 22nd July 2001 22:59

Cool - thanks for the tip about the "options..."

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John Arnold [EMAIL REMOVED]
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Nicholas Berry
> Sent: 21 July 2001 02:22
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: RE: FN-FORUM Snowhite virus
>
>
> 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]
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> >
> > > -----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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