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Mac Forum / Applications / Outlook Express / March 2004'my doom' virus
I'm getting replies and alerts saying that my mac is sending out messages to random addresses (example below). I presume it's a virus in outlook express. Anyone know what I can do? I'm using Outlook 5.03 on mac OS 9. > Our virus detector has just been triggered by a message you sent:- > To: jimmy@sunsetvine.co.uk > Subject: Error > Date: Thu Feb 5 19:58:05 2004 > Any infected parts of the message (document.zip) > have not been delivered. > > This message is simply to warn you that your computer system may have a > virus present and should be checked. > > The virus detector said this about the message: > Report: document.zip->document.exe Infection: W32/Mydoom.A@mm > I'm getting replies and alerts saying that my mac is sending out messages to > random addresses (example below). I presume it's a virus in outlook express. > Anyone know what I can do? > > I'm using Outlook 5.03 on mac OS 9. MyDoom is a PC worm (as are the vast majority). Your Mac is not infected with it, so don't worry. One of the common tricks that virus writers utilise is to make it look like messages are being sent from a certain e-mail address when in fact they are actually originating from an infection on a different machine. If anyone tries to give you grief, point them here... <http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.novarg.a@mm.htm l> Let me quote the crucial part... "Systems Not Affected: DOS, Linux, Macintosh, OS/2, UNIX, Windows 3.x" For what it's worth, more PC virii are written every day than have ever existed for the Mac! End of story :-P Not many people are still using OE 5.0.3 - if you get a chance, you might want to upgrade to OE 5.0.6, although this is not really essential if everything else is working correctly. You can download OE 5.0.6 here... <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx#OE> HTH, Ricky |
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