Bizarre Final Cut Pro Problem & Internet Virus--MacDV Digest #2644

[Ted Langdell]

To see where an e-mail started and where it's been, check the headers.  
You can check suspicious e-mails on OSX's "Mail" client by clicking on 
the "long headers" button in your toolbar, or going to the main menu 
and then View>Message>Long Headers.

Other people who have received something supposedly from you can 
compare an e-mail ACTUALLY sent from you with one of the suspects and 
see where it came from and where it traveled on its way (what servers 
and IP addresses it passed through) on its way to them.

It can also help you backtrack and let the real sender know they've got 
a problem.

Ted.


Ted Langdell
Ted Langdell Creative Broadcast Services
Marysville, CA

On Mar 21, 2004, at 5:19 AM, Macintosh Digital Video List wrote:

>
> Message-Id: <8A521B0F-7AE3-11D8-93B3-000393D141B6 at mac.com>
> From: Gerhard Kuhn <gerhardk at mac.com>
> Subject: [MacDV] Re: Bizarre Final Cut Pro Problem & Internet Virus
> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 21:57:50 -0500
>
> 99.9% sure that the source is a PC user.  I have received e-mails from
> people telling me I sent infected files, upon investigating these
> claims it was found they were never e-mails I sent.  Like I said before
> there are several PC viruses that are spoofing the return address using
> an address found in the infected PCs address book.  This is what they
> call social engineering, attempting to make people trust the source so
> that the likelihood of the attachment being opened is increased there
> by perpetuating the virus.
>
> Don't worry it is a PC user
>
> Gerhard
>
>
> On Mar 20, 2004, at 7:00 PM, animal wrote:
>
>> Update:
>>
>> I've just discovered that two more people I've emailed have been
>> infected by a virus in the last few days, yet my new Symantec 9
>> Antivirus (updated on the internet also) still says I'm uninfected.
>> This is wacky.  Can a mac spread a PC virus while scanning as
>> uninfected?  None of this could be related to my FCP problem - but I
>> don't want to be infecting anyone either.
>>
>> Lynn
>>
>>