[NTLUG:Discuss] Reporting viruses

[David Venable]

Greg Edwards wrote:

> Thomas Cameron wrote:
>
>> Unless you have a smoking gun and suffer a pecuniary loss well into 
>> the 10's
>> or even 100's of thousands of dollars, don't bother with the FBI.  
>> They do
>> not have the manpower to chase down little things like this, and 
>> trying to
>> get them to do so will only make you frustrated.
>
>
> I'm not considering the FBI.  This is probably a virus in somebodies 
> system.  I doubt the originator would have included the company name, 
> phone number, and fax while telling me that they just infected my 
> system with a virus.  The header tells me that this did not originate 
> with the From sender.
>
> Here's the message, I've removed all of the crap and multi part header 
> directives that were embedded in it.

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I'd really just let it go, if it did actually contain some executable 
code, send it to Norton or some other AV company to analyze. If it 
didn't, then it sounds like a variant of the Amish Virus :)

Dave