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Sharon got this from her work e mail addy. Anybody know what the hell this is??

Norton AntiVirus removed the attachment: creme_de_gruyere.zip.
The W32.Mota.B@mm threat was detected in the attachment.

Norton says it's a memory resident virus which affects programs. I don't know what that means.... but it doesn't sound like I want it!

Scarey thing is, Norton lists 68,176 different virus's :o

Think you'll find it's the sauce in a cheap fondue.... :P

Don't worry - it's just an alert that an incoming email was a virus rather than a real email, so it has binned it.

Ant,

Would the computer that sent it be infected? What damage would it do? Shazz is worried it's summat she's done, as the mail that was sent was from her work machine, a mail which she never sent.....

:lol::lol:

No mate, don't worry about it. Lots of virii these days will spoof the sendersemail address so it look like it's come from a trusted source and also to make it hard to track down the infected machine.

As Jamies says, an infected machine may well spoof the sending email address to look like it came from elsewhere (ie, Shazz's email address) rather than trying to invent a "from" email address. They're quite clever in that they can do this by monitoring all network traffic (web, email, newsgroups, etc) and "pick out" anything that looks like an email address.

You can trace back through the headers of the email as this provides a path of where the email has come from. However, there are other tricks such as inverting false headers to make it look like it came from elsewhere too!

The rule of thumb is that if you don't know who the email is from, delete it without opening it. If you do know who it's from, proceed with caution and never open attachments until they've been virus scanned - even people you know may get infected and be unknowingly sending you infected files too.

The main problem I get is loads of "bounce" messages from companies that block infected emails but send an email to the sender (the "from" email address) to tell them it has been blocked. The only problem is when you get a spammer or a virus that uses one of your email addresses or one of your domains as the From address, so you end up with hundreds of bounce messages! Luckily my ISP has introduced a new service to block these messages, so they've almost stopped now ... I was getting hundreds a day at one point!

So, get yourself an Anti-Virus program (even a free one off the internet like http://www.grisoft.com/ will do) and make sure you've got all the latest patches on your machine by going to Windows Update ( http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ ) and you should be pretty safe against getting infected. If you're really paranoid, make sure you run a Advert blocker ( like AdAware or SpyBot ) and get yourself a personal firewall installed like ZoneAlarm.

All of the above software is free, and often rated as the best, so there is no excuse for getting infected!

Cheers guys, Norton picked it, and blocked the virus before we she even opened the mail. We have got Norton scaning all mails as they arrive already at home. Just I never thought to see what the virus was in Norton, only when i read NB's post i thought about it. Cheers mate :D

What we could not understand was how it was sent from Shazz's work e mail, when she had not mailed herself yesterday. But you've all managed to answer that without blowing my brains apart. :o Anyway, I mailed Shazz's work e mail the Norton low down on this virus, and how to check and remove this virus. She's done that, and as i suspected from you're postings, there was no such virus on her machine. She's happy, cos she was worried they were not going to buy her a new flat screen monitor at work (17") because of it! Bless, least she's got her priorities right. :P

Flanker, just wanted to check something. That bird I was with last weekend was called Sharon, wasn't your missus was it? :lol: