Virus email from MBY@ipcmedia.com

[Chris_Robb]

Virus email from [email]MBY@ipcmedia.com[/email]

I received an email with a virus - stripped out by BTconnect (See below)
My question is how my email address get used or aquired by someone purporting to be MBY@IPCmedia.com

Kim - any ideas???????


VIRUS WARNING from BT Business email virus filter

The BT Business email virus filter flagged the following email attachment(s):

[2.2]: Attachment: your_product.pif
Problem: virus infected W32/Netsky-J
Action taken: deleted

For more details about what to do if you receive a warning message
from the BT Business email virus filter, please go to
http://www.btbroadbandoffice.com/help/email/viruswarning



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Here is the file.


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[DJE]

Re: Virus email from [email]MBY@ipcmedia.com[/email]

As I understand it (and I am no expert) Netsky collects email addresses from everyone's address books as it does the rounds. Then it picks one at random and pretends to be from that address. I get messages from people I have never heard of telling me that I have sent them a virus. All it means is that Netsky has infected a computer that had my address in its address book.

There must still be plenty of people out there who aren't running anti-virus software.

<hr width=100% size=1>Better to keep one's mouth shut and be considered a fool than open it and remove all possible doubt.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Re: Virus email from [email]MBY@ipcmedia.com[/email]

Spammers, and maybe virusjocks have ways of using false origin names to fool your filters into thinking that messages are real, not false. Almost certainly the message you got has nothing to do with IPCmedia, but the domain name and handle were choosen deliberately by 'hand' or by virus because they make a genuine sounding 'received from' address.

One of my favourite sites is <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.writeforweb.com/twister1>Let's Twist Again

 

[kimhollamby]

Re: Virus email from [email]MBY@ipcmedia.com[/email]

Sorry but this is a case of someone having hijacked the @ipcmedia.com element of our email addresses and used it from their own ends. Am pretty confident the mail did not originate from our servers. That address does not exist on our mail servers.

Sadly we get similar things inbound all of the time from all sorts of mail addresses...

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[Chris_Robb]

Re: Virus email from [email]MBY@ipcmedia.com[/email]

Load of sick people around to day!

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[Captain_Chaos]

Re: Virus email from [email]MBY@ipcmedia.com[/email]

"A lot of sick people around"

But I understand that the pimply youth that "designed" netsky has been offered a job by a computer company.

<hr width=100% size=1>74.56% of all statistics are made up.

 

[Hurleyburly]

Re: Virus email from [email]MBY@ipcmedia.com[/email]

Also my spyware blocker keeps notifying me it has bloked a file when I go to ybw.com

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