I just received a message in my junk mail box from System Attendant that contained a virus.

BEWARE

Catty

The %&^&R% who sent it to me is:

temizsoy@istanbul.edu.tr

Can I do anything about this?

Catty

Hi Catty
The logical things to do now is to A) Forward the email to MSN Abuse addy (anyone know the address?) If you still have it in your mail box?
and B)Put this address onto your "Block" email list this will bounce the message back if they try again OK. Again, anyone know how to access this feature? post it here Thanks

Thank you, bedstor. Say hello to Wigan Pier.

Catty

These are abuse addresses at Microsoft:

MSN: abuse@msn.com
WebTV: abuse@webtv.net
Hotmail: abuse@hotmail.com

Dwight

Thank you, Dwight!

Catty

Thank you, Dwight. MSN says they only take care of abuses from their customers. They will investigate and (hopefully) let me know.

Meanwhile, can anyone think of any really nasty things (but not hurtful, mind) I can do to the joker who sent me this virus?

Catty (not as as before, but still )

Catty,
Please keep in mind the return address of the virus infected attachment is almost certainly not the perpetrator of the virus, but rather just another victim. In almost all cases, the return address is "spoofed" which means it is simply harvested from the address book of one of the victims.

I'm sorry but there just isn't any practical way for you to get back at the perpetrator of these viruses except to keep your machine updated so that you're not victimized by the attack.

Dwight

And so I wasn't. At the risk of repeating myself, thank you, Dwight.

Catty