# E-Mail Virus question? **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [July 6, 2004, 3:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/e-mail-virus-question/115162 "2004-07-06T03:54:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Vulcan](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/the_vulcan/32/145_2.png) [@The\_Vulcan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/The_Vulcan)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 3:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/e-mail-virus-question/115162/1 "2004-07-06T03:54:16Z")
**Ok here is the deal.** **I open Outlook and it checks Hotmail and finds this.** > This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. Delivery to the following recipients failed. ``` [[u][color=#0000ff]athryn@nrgflinders.com.au[/color][/u]](묌ׄ紿Ȣ) ``` **Now I have never seen this e-mail address before and know I didn’t send it, so I look at the attachment for more details.** > * * * A virus (WORM\_NETSKY.C) was detected in the file ([image.txt.com](http://image.txt.com)). Action taken = remove _ **-** _ be mad? The attachment ([image.txt.com](http://image.txt.com)) was infected with a virus and removed. **Well I know I never sent any message “be mad?” to anyone, and I have never seen that e-mail address before.** **So I check the properties of the E-mail.** > Received: from mail.nrgflinders.com.au ([10.143.0.116]) by flnpkm003.flinders with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); > Mon, 5 Jul 2004 19:49:02 +0930 > Received: from nrgflinders.com.au ([203.220.103.112]unverified) by mail.nrgflinders.com.au with InterScan Messaging Security Suite; Mon, 05 Jul 2004 19:48:24 +0930 > From: [----ME----@hotmail.com](mailto:----ME----@hotmail.com) > To: [athryn@nrgflinders.com.au](mailto:athryn@nrgflinders.com.au) > Subject: warning > Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 19:48:07 +0930 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: multipart/mixed; > boundary=“----=\_NextPart\_000\_0008\_0000216D.00006F2E” > X-Priority: 3 > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > Return-Path: [----ME----@](mailto:----ME----@hotmail.com)[hotmail.com](mailto:bamb0006@hotmail.com) > Message-ID: \<[FLNPKM003nHUiZYjW0n00004364@flnpkm003.flinders](mailto:FLNPKM003nHUiZYjW0n00004364@flnpkm003.flinders)\> > X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Jul 2004 10:19:02.0641 (UTC) FILETIME=[7E84BE10:01C46279] **(----ME---- put in place of my real address by me.)** **So it shows that I sent this message on Monday and it came back to me. Now I know I didn’t send it so my first guess is that I have a virus and it sent itself to everyone in my address book.** **1. It didn’t come back from anyone else.** **2. That e-mail address is not in my address book.** **3. I did a virus scan last night and found nothing.** **[color=red]SO my question is whats going on here ?[/color]**