****** READ ME FIRST PH LIST VIRUS ? ******* (Joe Boyle)

[Gregory Provost]

Joe,

I'd be willing to bet money that the message in
question didn't actually come from Bob Deskin. I'm
pretty certain that Cognos, like most large companies,
scans incoming as well as outgoing messages for
viruses. It probably came from a third party, which
has both of your addresses in their address book. This
third party is probably using Outlook or Outlook
Express and has likely been infected with a virus or
trojan that turns their PC into a zombie to forward
spoofed messages from one contact to another. They
usually conceal the real address of the sender to make
it harder for the recipient to determine the actual
sender. Check the headers of the message to see if you
can obtain the IP address of the true sender.

I once had a similar problem. I was receiving
identical e-mails with an attached virus almost every
day over a period of several weeks. I was able to
trace them back to an ISP in South Korea. I forwarded
the header information from several messages to the
abuse contact at the ISP and they soon stopped.

Good luck,

- Gregory Provost.

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