atco-matic
22nd Feb 2002, 14:28
Hi all,
every morning this week somebody has sent me a virus. It is attached to an email as a .pif file with various characters in the filename. If I have the preview pane open in Outlook Express, the attachment tries to autorun when I click on the email but fortunately I have the patch from Microsoft that asks me if I want to run it first.
All well and good, but I would like to find out where this email is coming from! The subject line says ' Width ' and the sender is ' Info '. My question is, can I click on Block Sender without releasing the virus, or preferably how can I find out who the sender is without releasing the virus?
I have updated my antivirus software, but it doesn't pick this one up, and I can't find any reference to it anywhere. Anybody know anything about it?
every morning this week somebody has sent me a virus. It is attached to an email as a .pif file with various characters in the filename. If I have the preview pane open in Outlook Express, the attachment tries to autorun when I click on the email but fortunately I have the patch from Microsoft that asks me if I want to run it first.
All well and good, but I would like to find out where this email is coming from! The subject line says ' Width ' and the sender is ' Info '. My question is, can I click on Block Sender without releasing the virus, or preferably how can I find out who the sender is without releasing the virus?
I have updated my antivirus software, but it doesn't pick this one up, and I can't find any reference to it anywhere. Anybody know anything about it?