Virus

[Kelly]

About 6 months ago I got a email that had a Trojan Horse in it. I contacted
the sender(a person I did not know). He told me he did not send the email. I
got another one yesterday. Again I contacted him. He said he did not send me
any emails. He contacted his superiors(since the computer is a company one)
at GM auto dealership. They were not concern. Tody I got two more. From the
same person. I used my reply to. ..to contact him. Again He says he
didn't send me anything. Is there some way this can be stopped? Is there a
way to see where the email really came from? Is the only thing I can do is to
block the sender?? Please advise.... I did get the virus's removed to a
virus vault. Kelly

 

[Patricia Cardoza [Outlook MVP]]

The way viruses usually work these days is the following.

Person A is infected.
Person A has a bunch of email addresses on their computer in Outlook, web
pages, documents, etc.
Virus searches Person A's computer and finds two email addresses, one for
Person B and one for Person C.
A virus is sent from Person A's computer but the From address is Person B
and the To address is Person C.

So, Person C (you) thinks the virus came from Person B (the GM person) when
really it's Person A (who could be anyone) who is infected.

It's one of those really sneaky way viruses spread because it makes it very
hard to track where they are coming from. Sometimes, you can go into the
email header and find out who Person A really is, but much of the time, all
you'll get is Person A's IP address which probably won't tell you much other
than who their local ISP is.

--
Patricia Cardoza
Outlook MVP
Author - Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Lead Author - Access 2003 VBA Programmer's Reference
Author - Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft OneNote 2003

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