Email virus - Administrator please respond

[Turbo Horseman]

I received an email from the administrator that I sent TDR a virus in an email communication. Problem is, I haven't communicated by email with TDR and my machine is clean. I use both Norton and Inoculate T regularly. They are also updated continuously.



Can you provide more information? Should I have been the one to receive the email in the first place?



ttfn

 

[admin2]

Diagnosis....

With email viruses, you don't have to send us email.



Virus emails send email copies of themselves on the sly in the background. They send them out to everyone you've ever emailed so if you've ever had contact with TDR via email then we can be a target.



With this particular virus, most headers are stripped from the email therefore I have to work with what I get to find out who sent it. I have about a 95% success rate with this. Anyway, the headers showed rttinc.com as the source of the virus. We have only 1 rttinc.com user, yourself. That narrowed it down considerably. Then I looked at my email for the last 2 months (that's how far back I save email) and found no emails to webmaster@turbodieselregister.com from any rttinc.com users. In other words, I'm probably not in any other rrtinc.com user's address book, but since you are TDR member chances are very high that you have emailed us in the past. Using this information, I sent the email.



As I noted, I'm not 100% successful with tracking down where viruses come from. I could be wrong in this case.



Ken

TDR Admin

 

[Turbo Horseman]

Thanks for the info Ken. The only time I emailed you folks was when I first signed up. Signing up was using emai. The only other time I have contacted you folks directly was using your revised sign up for the reworked website. That was using your (this is where I start to get into computer illiterate areas) sign in mechanism.



Is it possible that the virus was already there and set a new source?



Like I said, I do virus checks regularly. Every day on powering up I use innoculate T, updates almost daily and then use updated Norton every few days. Only once did a virus get reported and that was approximately October or November of last year. That was the M... something virus. From all indications, my computer is clean.



Is there any way that updated Norton and Innoculate T could be mssing the virus? If so, how do I find out? Like I said, its showing up clean every time.



ttfn

 

[admin2]

Virus...

I wouldn't worry at this point. Its not you, Norton has caught this virus for nearly a year.



Ken

TDR Admin