Help please have I got a Virus

J

John C

Today I have received several returned e mails that I have never sent, they
appear to have been checked for viruses then sent to me, I am sure I have no
viruses and am wondering if my e mail address could have been hijacked some
how, yesterday I did not receive three confirmation e mails that normally
arrive without fail, today they were fine.

I have tonight run Mc Afee avert stinger 1.8.4 all was ok, also Mc Afee
virus scan V4.5.1 was fine, there were no mails in my sent items in outlook
that I did not recognise, my Zone alarm is set to its highest settings and
tests run on sygate online confirms that all ports etc are secure, also I do
not use the address book facility.

I have listed some of the returned mails below and would be grateful of any
advice.

John

The original message was received at Fri, 5 Sep 2003 09:49:44 -0500 (CDT)

from remote167-186.gua.net [168.234.167.186]

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----

<[email protected]>

(reason: data format error)

----- Transcript of session follows -----

ANTIVIRUS SYSTEM FOUND VIRUSES

From: <[email protected]>

To: <[email protected]>

Subject: Re: That movie

dfh85Enhn89939/wicked_scr.scr infected: I-Worm.Sobig.f

This Message Contain Viruses. You Will have to Clean your PC

with an Updated Antivirus Software Before Sending any Mail.

554 5.6.0 Viruses were detected

501 5.6.0 Data format error



V I R U S (A L E R T A)

Foi encontrado VIRUS no e-mail que voce enviou para
"(e-mail address removed)".

O seu envio foi cancelado!

Favor fazer uma verificacao geral no seu equipamento.

AMaViS - A Mail Virus Scanner, licenced GPL





Para sua referencia, seque os cabecalhos do seu e-mail:

------------------------- BEGIN HEADERS -----------------------------
From (e-mail address removed) Fri Sep 5 16:16:43 2003

Return-Path: <[email protected]>

Received: from MTLRECEPCION (remote167-186.gua.net [168.234.167.186])

by cpdadm06.grupolider.com.br () with ESMTP id h85JGgk14746

for <[email protected]>; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:16:43 -0300

Message-Id: <[email protected]>

From: <[email protected]>

To: <[email protected]>

Subject: Re: Wicked screensaver

Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:04:56 --0600

X-MailScanner: Found to be clean

Importance: Normal

X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000

X-MSMail-Priority: Normal

X-Priority: 3 (Normal)

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Type: multipart/mixed;

boundary="_NextPart_000_00EF0B6F"

X-AntiVirus: scanned for viruses by AMaViS 0.2.1 (http://amavis.org/)



This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its

recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

(e-mail address removed)

This message has been rejected because it has

a potentially executable attachment "your_details.pif"

This form of attachment has been used by

recent viruses or other malware.

If you meant to send this file then please

package it up as a zip file and resend it.

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------

Return-path: <[email protected]>

Received: from [168.234.167.186] (helo=MTLRECEPCION)

by server865.gisol.com with esmtp (Exim 4.20)

id 19vLcl-0007Pj-Ty

for (e-mail address removed); Fri, 05 Sep 2003 11:48:01 -0700

From: <[email protected]>

To: <[email protected]>

Subject: Re: Approved

Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 12:47:56 --0600

X-MailScanner: Found to be clean

Importance: Normal

X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000

X-MSMail-Priority: Normal

X-Priority: 3 (Normal)

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Type: multipart/mixed;

boundary="_NextPart_000_00DF8763"

Message-Id: <[email protected]>

This is a multipart message in MIME format

--_NextPart_000_00DF8763

Content-Type: text/plain;

charset="iso-8859-1"

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Please see the attached file for details.

--_NextPart_000_00DF8763

Content-Type: application/octet-stream;

name="your_details.pif"

Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

Content-Disposition: attachment;

filename="your_details.pif"



This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its

recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

(e-mail address removed)

This message has been rejected because it has

a potentially executable attachment "wicked_scr.scr"

This form of attachment has been used by

recent viruses or other malware.

If you meant to send this file then please

package it up as a zip file and resend it.

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------

Return-path: <[email protected]>

Received: from [168.234.167.186] (helo=MTLRECEPCION)

by server865.gisol.com with esmtp (Exim 4.20)

id 19vIGv-0007li-Iz

for (e-mail address removed); Fri, 05 Sep 2003 08:13:16 -0700

From: <[email protected]>

To: <[email protected]>

Subject: Re: Details

Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 9:13:09 --0600

X-MailScanner: Found to be clean

Importance: Normal

X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000

X-MSMail-Priority: Normal

X-Priority: 3 (Normal)

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Type: multipart/mixed;

boundary="_NextPart_000_001AE36C"

Message-Id: <[email protected]>

This is a multipart message in MIME format

--_NextPart_000_001AE36C

Content-Type: text/plain;

charset="iso-8859-1"

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Please see the attached file for details.

--_NextPart_000_001AE36C

Content-Type: application/octet-stream;

name="wicked_scr.scr"

Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

Content-Disposition: attachment;

filename="wicked_scr.scr"



This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its

recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

(e-mail address removed)

This message has been rejected because it has

a potentially executable attachment "thank_you.pif"

This form of attachment has been used by

recent viruses or other malware.

If you meant to send this file then please

package it up as a zip file and resend it.

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------

Return-path: <[email protected]>

Received: from [168.234.167.186] (helo=MTLRECEPCION)

by server865.gisol.com with esmtp (Exim 4.20)

id 19vJBs-0004F5-Kf

for (e-mail address removed); Fri, 05 Sep 2003 09:12:05 -0700

From: <[email protected]>

To: <[email protected]>

Subject: Your details

Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 10:12:04 --0600

X-MailScanner: Found to be clean

Importance: Normal

X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000

X-MSMail-Priority: Normal

X-Priority: 3 (Normal)

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Type: multipart/mixed;

boundary="_NextPart_000_0050C7B0"

Message-Id: <[email protected]>

This is a multipart message in MIME format

--_NextPart_000_0050C7B0

Content-Type: text/plain;

charset="iso-8859-1"

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Please see the attached file for details.

--_NextPart_000_0050C7B0

Content-Type: application/octet-stream;

name="thank_you.pif"

Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

Content-Disposition: attachment;

filename="thank_you.pif"



V I R U S (A L E R T A)

Foi encontrado VIRUS no e-mail que voce enviou para
"(e-mail address removed)".

O seu envio foi cancelado!

Favor fazer uma verificacao geral no seu equipamento.

AMaViS - A Mail Virus Scanner, licenced GPL





Para sua referencia, seque os cabecalhos do seu e-mail:

------------------------- BEGIN HEADERS -----------------------------
From (e-mail address removed) Fri Sep 5 16:21:36 2003

Return-Path: <[email protected]>

Received: from MTLRECEPCION (remote167-186.gua.net [168.234.167.186])

by cpdadm06.grupolider.com.br () with ESMTP id h85JLak20213

for <[email protected]>; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:21:36 -0300

Message-Id: <[email protected]>

From: <[email protected]>

To: <[email protected]>

Subject: Your details

Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:09:48 --0600

X-MailScanner: Found to be clean

Importance: Normal

X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000

X-MSMail-Priority: Normal

X-Priority: 3 (Normal)

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Type: multipart/mixed;

boundary="_NextPart_000_00F384F1"

X-AntiVirus: scanned for viruses by AMaViS 0.2.1 (http://amavis.org/)
 
J

John Coutts

Someone who has your email address somewhere on their hard disk is infected and
sending out the Sobig.f virus, spoofing your address as the return address.
This is not uncommon with this particular virus
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J

John Coutts

Someone who has your email address somewhere on their hard disk is infected and
sending out the Sobig.f virus, spoofing your address as the return address.
This is not uncommon with this particular virus
***************** REPLY SEPARATER *******************
By the way; the originating IP address (168.234.167.186) belongs to the
University of Guatemala.
 
J

John C

Thanks I was a bit worried.

John


John Coutts said:
Someone who has your email address somewhere on their hard disk is infected and
sending out the Sobig.f virus, spoofing your address as the return address.
This is not uncommon with this particular virus
***************** REPLY SEPARATER *******************
 

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