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March 4, 2001 at 04:03 AM
cswanick

Tracking down malicious e-mail sender

by cswanick . Updated 24 years, 8 months ago

I have recieved some malicius e-mail in the recent past, I believe it was directed at me specifically, and contained the w95hybris.gen
virus in Dwarfforyou.exe file. (Unfortunately, my isp only provides pop3 and not Imap mail) and as soon as this message opend, the file launched itself, and I was infected. (Windows ME< auto rebuild, what a pain the a**!!!) Well, now I am in the process of attempting to decipher the header information in the 2 messages that I suspect came from the same individual, in order to have legal proof to bill him for the consulting fees I needed to pay in order to fully remove this malicious piece of code. The sender apparantly used multiple mail gateways, attemptin to maintain anonymity, and I would like to know if there is any way I could gather enough info from the header info of these two messages in order to definitavely trace these messages back to the immature child in adults shoes that sent me these messages. I am a home user, not greatly schooled in internet technologies, but really love reading up on new tech stuff here at techpro, thanks a lot, I hope to hear soon.

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