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virus attack

dennis

My E mail appears to have been corrupted by some form of trojan or other viral software. It replicates my e mail address and sends out an e mail eith an attachment advertisement. Sophos does not appear to pick up this virus, any suggestions??

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Dennis

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    Do you have evidence that your email client is sending out the attachments, or is it just that others are receiving malware purportedly from you?

    "From" headers are commonly forged in spam messages, and it could just be that some piece of malware has your address on its list, and is forging it from you.

    However, the other common thing that's found is people using webmail who either use a simple-to-guess password, or re-use their username and password across sites.  In these cases, the attack system just attempts to log into your email account, harvest your address book, and then either use your account to send email to your address book contacts,  or do the same thing via a botnet.

    As far as I know, there are no in-the-wild Mac pieces of malicious software that attempt to spew malware from your local computer via your local email client.  This is obviously subject to change, and there ARE a number of malicious remote access packages that could be used to accomplish this task, even though it isn't their primary objective.  We tend to do a pretty good job at detecting these, however.

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    Do you have evidence that your email client is sending out the attachments, or is it just that others are receiving malware purportedly from you?

    "From" headers are commonly forged in spam messages, and it could just be that some piece of malware has your address on its list, and is forging it from you.

    However, the other common thing that's found is people using webmail who either use a simple-to-guess password, or re-use their username and password across sites.  In these cases, the attack system just attempts to log into your email account, harvest your address book, and then either use your account to send email to your address book contacts,  or do the same thing via a botnet.

    As far as I know, there are no in-the-wild Mac pieces of malicious software that attempt to spew malware from your local computer via your local email client.  This is obviously subject to change, and there ARE a number of malicious remote access packages that could be used to accomplish this task, even though it isn't their primary objective.  We tend to do a pretty good job at detecting these, however.

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