[Ti] (OT) virus reports sent back to me by PC users

[Nick Benjamin]

Do the messages name any specific virus?

Nick

--- "F. Mortes" <fmortes at saltidiomes.com> wrote:
> Dear friends,
> 
> I need a little help.
> 
> Over the last few months, I've been getting an awful
> lot of what 
> appears to be messages created by virus detection
> systems on other 
> people's computers, informing me that I've sent them
> a message 
> containing a virus. Most such messages come from
> people I do not even 
> know ... and sometimes include .exe attachments!
> 
> But in other cases these come from people I
> regularly deal with and, on 
> one occasion, I've had a concerned call from a
> customer whose IT Dept. 
> blame ME for "the repeated infection attempts" she
> has been suffering, 
> allegedly by messages sent from my computer. Now, I
> very rarely send 
> this customer e-mails and certainly not as often or
> when she claims she 
> has got them ...
> 
> I know that there are no known viruses yet for
> Jaguar (except some 
> trojan that can disguise itself as an .mp3 file?)
> and my Powebook (Ti 
> 550) is working like a charm, but ...
> 
> .... could I be infecting other users and their PCs?
> 
> Is there anything I can do to stop receiving those
> annoying messages or 
> to reassure my concerned customer?
> 
> Thank you in advance!
> 
> Francesc in Catalonia
> 
> 
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