Bernd Blaauw wrote:
purge occurred, as now it's 195 mails instead of 1200+ in my "unwanted email" folder in my webmail. Normal POP3 and Gmail accounts seem to stay completely clean, no trouble whatsoever.
Michael details a known outbreak below; it's strange I have not seen this either on my work network or home computer (yet!). Regarding Hotmail vs Gmail, I know there's a technique they use against hotmail where they can simply guess valid addresses by using [EMAIL PROTECTED], but this does not explain why viruses were allowed to get through. You'd think Microsoft would have a decent AV program installed on Hotmail servers, but it could be they did detect the virus, stripped it out, but then allowed the plain text part of the message to get through (which is almost as bad!)
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