Virus barrier alert...

...for a Windows worm?

[Syzygy]

Blimey, it's all happening (or not, as the case may be...) on my Mac this week...

Virus Barrier suprised me this evening by alerting me to the fact that, apparently, one of my mailboxes was infected by W32.Moodown.B (also known as W32.Netsky.B, from what I've subsequently read).

However, from what I did read this worm affects Outlook Express in Windows only. Is that correct?

I scanned with Net Barrier, but it found nothing...

Should I be concerned?

Syzygy

[DerekH]

Macs can't get PC viruses.
There's only one recorded MacOs X virus out at the moment, and that requires you to type in an administrator's password to install it first...

There are two scenarios for this -
one you've forward an infected mail - possible but unlikely, because unlike the PC victims, you'll definitely see it has an attachment.
two - someone is using your email address to Spam people - happens to me occasionally - someone scrapes my address of something and sends a whole lot of cr*p out, purportedly from me.
I sometimes have a witty paragraph on the front page of my website in case people go there, angry.

I get one or two non-delivery emails a week which are clearly someone using my email address as a ReplyTo

it sucks, but it's a fact of life...
DerekH

[Syzygy]

Thanks again, DerekH. That explains a lot.

I access my work emails from home and basically we have no protection in the office. I get a good number of 'return to senders' in the office, so I'm guessing that Virus Barrier has detected the worm in one of those - even though it cannot infect...

Much appreciated.

Syzygy