Pesky virus

From: Michael Sullivan (michael_at_espersunited.com)
Date: 07/23/04

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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:14:20 -0500

    I've got a small problem. Last week I received in my
    non-espersunited.com email account an email from someone I don't know
    with an .exe file as an attachment. Naturally I assumed that this was a
    virus, and wrote back to the email address it was from informing them
    that they had a virus. I've received several similar emails on through
    the week, most were unique but all followed the same format: One line
    of text and then the attachment link, usually a .exe or a .zip file. I
    haven't opened any of them, but in the past couple of days I've begun
    seeing them in my espersunited.com email accounts. I wasn't too worried
    about it until this morning, when I received a message from another SMTP
    server saying that my mail was undeliverable to some person's email
    account. I looked at the message sent and it was indeed from me, but
    the message body held the same one line and thesame EXE/ZIP file
    attachment as the ones I'd received from multiple sources. I use
    evolution as my email client. Could I be infected with this virus? I
    didn't think Linux was susceptible to virii - only hostile shell
    scripts. Is there a way I can test if I am infected, and if I am, is
    there a way to find the virus so that I can destroy it? 

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