receiving virus messages on word 2004 for mac documents in Entourage

[weil052061]

The virus Exploit-1Table was found in eHGT_transplant ad.doc.
The attachment eHGT_transplant ad.doc was removed.

anyone have any ideas. i've already contacted apple with no luck.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

The virus Exploit-1Table was found in eHGT_transplant ad.doc.
The attachment eHGT_transplant ad.doc was removed.

anyone have any ideas. i've already contacted apple with no luck.

What ideas are you looking for?

You apparently were sent a Word document that is infected and your
antivirus app caught it. If your antivirus app can clean the file, have
it do so. If it can't, trash the file...

Exploit-1Table is a Windows-only Trojan Horse, but you can spread it by
distributing infected files.

Apple would have nothing to do with this...

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

The virus Exploit-1Table was found in eHGT_transplant ad.doc.
The attachment eHGT_transplant ad.doc was removed.

anyone have any ideas. i've already contacted apple with no luck.

Well, this is a Trojan horse for Office for WIndows:
<http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_128428.htm>
Either it was already in a file you had on your Mac and you forwarded
it, or it was send by another computer which then spoofed your e-mail
address as the sender's address (and that's why you received the
notification.

It is my understanding that this Troyan cannot do a thing on a Mac.
Entourage cannot get "infected" and start sending it over to various
people, so if you didn't send the corresponding Word document, chances
are it didn't actually come from you.

Entourage doesn't support any kind of VB script anyway, so even if you
wanted to, you couldn't infect it with any of these,

Corentin

 

[weil052061]

Well, this is a Trojan horse for Office for WIndows:
<http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_128428.htm>
Either it was already in a file you had on your Mac and you forwarded
it, or it was send by another computer which then spoofed your e-mail
address as the sender's address (and that's why you received the
notification.

It is my understanding that this Troyan cannot do a thing on a Mac.
Entourage cannot get "infected" and start sending it over to various
people, so if you didn't send the corresponding Word document, chances
are it didn't actually come from you.

Entourage doesn't support any kind of VB script anyway, so even if you
wanted to, you couldn't infect it with any of these,

Corentin

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This has been very helpful. It's making me think that maybe our mail
gateway has been infected. I'll continue to research. Thanks for your
help.

 

[William Smith]

This has been very helpful. It's making me think that maybe our mail
gateway has been infected. I'll continue to research. Thanks for your
help.

After reading this thread I would suspect your E-mail gateway has
actually caught and quarantined the virus and passed along the text of
the E-mail message to you for your information.

If you received no attachment or received an attachment that says the
original attachment contained a virus then everything is working as it
should.

Chances are that the message was part of a broadcast of spam messages
rather than a legitimate message to you alone.

Hope this helps!

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bill

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