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

[David Delmonte]

As there is little that we can do to stop these erroneous messages from being sent to us, the best way someone on this list mentioned (I think John Griffin), was to set up a "rule" in mail to send these messages to the trash so they dont bother us.

David
 
On Wednesday, June 16, 2004, at 10:53AM, 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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