I keep getting this mail once evry day from

MailScanner [postmaster@enhtech.com] as following :



Our virus detector has just been triggered by a message you sent:-
To: hunter@lakeshore-rv.com
Subject: I'm a sad girl...
Date: Thu Jul 1 14:59:48 2004

One or more of the attachments (Document.hta) are on
the list of unacceptable attachments for this site and will not have been delivered.

Consider renaming the files or putting them into a "zip" file to avoid this constraint.

The virus detector said this about the message:
Report: HTML archives are very dangerous in email (Document.hta)


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i know one thing for sure I didnt send any mail to
hunter@lakeshore-rv.com and i dont know who the hell is he

how could this happen ?

Either your computer is infected with a virus or someone forged the headers in an email to make it look like it came from you. It happens all the time.

Most likely it is one of the new worms that are circulating around the internet causing these problems. Like NetSkey and such.

However just in case do what CompleteSSL said and scan your hard drive to see if you have any viruses on your computer.

clamscan -r /home/ --infected

output :



----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 22228
Scanned directories: 1352
Scanned files: 14072
Infected files: 0
Data scanned: 1582.64 MB
I/O buffer size: 131072 bytes
Time: 932.353 sec (15 m 32 s)





any comments ?

I meant to scan your home computer and not the server for viruses. Do you use Outlook Express at all on your home computer or work computer?

i use microsoft outlook and i just ran a scan with norton antivirus 2004 the result is negative no virus in my home pc

The newer worms are targetting vulnerabilities in both Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express. What happens is it reads your address book and then sends out viruses to each member of your address book. Then replicates, doing the same procedure on others.

There is not much you can do about it.

hunter@lakeshore-rv.com is NOT in my address book

my home pc did not infect with any kind of viruses or worms or hacked the past 5 years since i use very effective anti virus and firewall

Originally posted by xmlxp
hunter@lakeshore-rv.com is NOT in my address book

my home pc did not infect with any kind of viruses or worms or hacked the past 5 years since i use very effective anti virus and firewall

I think what DiBellaweb is saying this that your email address is in someone else's computer that is infected and that infected computer is sending out the viris infected email pretending to be from you.

You should however email that company and ask them to stop sending Virus warnings to the sender. That's irritating and in most cases forged.

Thanks CompleteSSL for clearing that up. What i meant to say is exactly what CompleteSSL said.

I get 100's of these daily in my spam box for the past many months, and my computer is clean. Thank god for spam assassin, and thunderbirds filters. :)