[Coco] Re: Spam and e-mails

[John E. Malmberg]

Dave wrote:
> In part this is to Bryan Goers;
> 
> I received both of these this weekend. Both had zipped files attached 
> the could have been cut and pasted into the message so that they did not 
> hide virii.

<snip>

> Your account was used to send a large amount of spam during this week.
> Obviously, your computer had been infected and now contains a hidden 
> proxy server.

This is a known virus that came out several months ago.

It is not a bounce.

Some of viruses now put a web server on the infected computer, and try 
to get you to visit it by opening a document or running an attachment.

There is an exploit where opening a zip file will trigger an HTML 
document to be parsed on some platforms.

The headers of the message will reveal the I.P. address of the computer 
that is infected.

-John
wb8tyw(at)qsl.net
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