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Virus Alert enail to .mac account

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St. George

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May 7, 2003
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Greetings

I've received a couple of emails to my second emaol-only email account with .mac

They read:

Dear user xxxx@mac.com,

Your email account has been used to send a huge amount of unsolicited commercial e-mail messages during this week.
Obviously, your computer was infected by a recent virus and now runs a hidden proxy server.

Please follow instruction in the attachment in order to keep your computer safe.

Virtually yours,
The mac.com team.

(Then there's an attached file to click)

Obvioulsy I haven't clicked on this attached file and they do appear to be false mails (grammar for a start).

What I'm wondering is how can I check for myself to see if I really am running a hidden proxy server.

I'm on 10.3.4 and using the mac firewall.

Regards
.m.
 
Sounds like a bogus email designed to get you to click attachment which might do some harm. Ignore it.
 
St. George said:
Greetings

I've received a couple of emails to my second emaol-only email account with .mac

They read:

Dear user xxxx@mac.com,

Your email account has been used to send a huge amount of unsolicited commercial e-mail messages during this week.
Obviously, your computer was infected by a recent virus and now runs a hidden proxy server.

Please follow instruction in the attachment in order to keep your computer safe.

Virtually yours,
The mac.com team.

(Then there's an attached file to click)

Obvioulsy I haven't clicked on this attached file and they do appear to be false mails (grammar for a start).

What I'm wondering is how can I check for myself to see if I really am running a hidden proxy server.

I'm on 10.3.4 and using the mac firewall.

Regards
.m.
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This is a rather old hoax.
 
This is a bogus email, but it's not a "hoax" per se..

This is a virus email (the attachment is a Windows virus) generated by a Windows box infected with MyDoom.o.

It won't hard your Mac. It won't infect your Mac. Go ahead and ignore it.
 
Thanks all.

I tought it was another infected pc (ms) but just wanted to check - a lot of people have this particular email address as it's business related - kinda figures I'd get trouble from MS pcs as some point;)

.m.
 
View the long header, get the outgoing server's ip and whois.sc it. Then, contact the system admin of that server and alert them of whats going on.
 
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