Re: Virus Found in message "Application"

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 03:29:03PM +0100, Stefano Novello wrote:
> Norton AntiVirus found a virus in an attachment you
> (eclipse-bugs@icparc.ic.ac.uk) sent to paul.sloane@lateralpuzzles.com.

We (eclipse-bugs@icparc.ic.ac.uk) did not send anything to
paul.sloane@lateralpuzzles.com.  eclipse-bugs is a receive-only address; the
virus faked it as the originator (probably a fairly standard technique these
days to slow down the discovery and clean-up of infected machines).

Note that the timestamp on the original email suggests that the originating
machine was on the continent.  Note also that the mail system trying to
bounce the mail as spam did not include enough header information to
determine what the originating machine might have been.

Cheers,
Warwick