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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: Staind on August 15, 2004, 10:47:22 PM
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Hi, just recieved this email:
The following message had attachment(s) which contained viruses:
Subject: MDaemon Warning - Virus Found
From : staind@sympatico.ca
To : nnalevanko@greencastle.k12.pa.us
Subject : believe me
Date : Sun, 15 Aug 2004 14:12:56 -0400
Message-ID:
Attachment Virus name Action taken
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portmoney_secrets.doc.exe I-Worm.NetSky.c Removed
Boot scan / regular scan of Avast! doesn't detect anything. Is it just a hoax?
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Boot scan / regular scan of Avast! doesn't detect anything.
See the part just above it that say: "portmoney_secrets.doc.exe I-Worm.NetSky.c Removed
Avast is doing its work :D
Only strange thing I see is that you seem to be the sender. Is the one in the "TO" field familiar to you or perhaps even in your contact list?
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No, I don't know "nnalevanko@greencastle.k12.pa.us" which is why I thought I was infected.
Thanks :)!
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Just to be on the safe side. Run a online scan also. I do not think it will find something, but better safe than sorry.
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Ok, thanks.
Update: Online scans detected nothing. Guess I'm clean, thanks for your help!
-Staind
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Hi,
See the part just above it that say: "portmoney_secrets.doc.exe I-Worm.NetSky.c Removed
Avast is doing its work
This has nothing to do with avast doing or not doing its job as it sounds like a KASPERSKY-Detection.. ;)
Click4Info (http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/vgrep/vgrep.cgi?terms=I-Worm.NetSky.c&product=0)
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General Info on Spoofing/FakeSenderAddress:
Receiving an email alert stating that the virus came from your email address is NOT an indication that you are infected
as the virus often forges the from address:
- somewhere in the infinite reaches of the universe/internet, a PC is infected with netsky AND has your Email-adress saved somewhere.
The Worm then sends out itself with fake sender-adress; a Mailserver-Scanner then wrongly interprets this virus-mail as coming from you, and sends you the above (inappropriate and useless) reply.
if avast says your PC is clean, it most probably is
;)
Read the virusinfos (see below or above) on netsky ;)
P.S.:
You can expect some more of these mail-bounces/alerts, or even Netsky being sent to you, if the real sender doesn't cleanup his PC quick...., BUT:
finding out who it really is is next to impossible for you,
- especially if sender doesn't have a fixed IP ;) &
- if you don't get the full mail-headers..
;)