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Anyone else get a virus emailed from JJTeaparty?

goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
I looks like I got one today. here is the text after my pc caught it.

file attachment: colspan.exe

This e-mail in its original form contained one or more attached files that were infected with the W32.Klez.H@mm virus or worm. They have been removed.
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    MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    No but someone sneezed on the catalog I just got from them and I got the flu!
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

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    jdimmickjdimmick Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    John,

    Did you say you got it from an E-mail, I have visted thier site recently, but dont recieve mail from them, so Hopefully I am okay. Although I have the Norton Internet security so it shouldn come through any way???
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    goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
    Yeah I got it via email this morning while at work.

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    RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    I doubt it originated from them. Klez, (and most other viruses), spoofs the return address.

    Russ, NCNE
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    KollectorKingKollectorKing Posts: 4,820 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nope, I got mine last nite and have downloaded some pics w/no problems.
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    What Russ and Marty said.

    Most viruses never come from the address the e-mail states.

    I'm down with the flu also on Turkey Day image

    Happy T-Day to all. Dave
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    sinin1sinin1 Posts: 7,500
    the Klez doesn't spoof return address's - it takes them from the infected computers emails
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    RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>the Klez doesn't spoof return address's - it takes them from the infected computers emails >>



    Sure it does. Several variants use the eMail addresses in an infected computer's address book as the return address on the mails it sends out. Thus, it can appear that the origin is from an address when it actually is not. That's a spoof.

    Russ, NCNE
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    sinin1sinin1 Posts: 7,500
    okay, if that is what a spoof is

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