[Typo3] Good Day Virus Threat

[Bill Alexy]

Bernhard,
Always the voice of reason. Well I already deleted the email, so the 
world may never know who actually sent the email. leave it to a few 
jerks to try ruin good will among a great community like this, even if 
it was unintentioanlly the typo3 community.

Best regards,
Bill

Kraft Bernhard wrote:

> Bill Alexy wrote:
>
>> Received  an email from typo3 at fx-frafix.de with the attached "Good 
>> day" virus. Symantec successfully quarentined the virus but thought I 
>> would give the list a heads up.
>
>
> Be aware that those virus thingys just take two email addresses out of 
> the
> address book of somebody and then use one of the addresses as "From:" 
> and the
> other as "To:" ... so if you receive a virus from somebody you know it 
> is most
> probably that he (his computer) didn't send it.
>
> So if you receive a virus from somebody it just mean you and the 
> "from" person is
> in the address book of somebody having the virus "installed" :)
>
> The only way to find out the real sender of the E-Mail is to look into 
> the mail-
> header and look for the IP who sent the mail. So you can closer your 
> investigations
> to a single IP (which probably is used for many PC's ... think of NAT)
>
>
> greets,
> Bernhard