Virus piggybacking on my email?

jubi lee

not sure if this is the right place for this so feel free to move.

i sent an email to a friend with a picture on it. when she got it, there was 2 attachments. the first was my attached picture, the 2nd was a load of porn pictures that you scroll thru.

i sent this from my work email which is very heavily virus protected.

I have run virus,spyware/adware etc and it's found nothing.

Any ideas??

Ruu_Old

It doesn't look like your work emails are that "heavily protected", I would contact your system administrator and let him know (but maybe not mention that you were sending pictures to your friend).

jubi lee

it was a photo of a family gathering.. so is fine.

thanks anyway

Ruu_Old

What anti-virus package have you got installed and are there firewalls installed on the computers?

Mountjoy Mugger

Tbh, if you've got porn on your PC at work you're asking for trouble.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Could something have infected the SMTP server at work?

What sort of system are they using

jubi lee

1) there is no porn on my pc or none that i can find anyway.
2) yes there are multiple firewalls, it's a large multinational. if you have a virus ur normally locked out of the network straight away until they clean ur pc
3) Virus scan enterprise is what they use. but i have extra stuff on it to remove adaware, spyware etc

i still have the sent email in im sent messages and it's only showing the photo attachment i sent to my friends vodafone.ie account. so i don't know where the porn attachment got added.

layke

I'd double check that with her.

I've never known a virus to randomly add porn to an email and spam it without trying to insert it's own code into the recipients machine.

jubi lee

layke wrote:

I'd double check that with her.

I've never known a virus to randomly add porn to an email and spam it without trying to insert it's own code into the recipients machine.

could it be coming from her machine??

she showed me the email and sure enough there was 2 attachments. my one and the porn one. the porn one, opens up in a window that shows pictures and everytime you click it another porn picture comes up but its only 2k in size..

layke

Weird.

Have you tried forwarding the same message to some one else?

See if it happens again. At least that way you will know if it's you or her.

jubi lee

layke wrote:

Weird.

Have you tried forwarding the same message to some one else?

See if it happens again. At least that way you will know if it's you or her.

i sent it to my own web email address and it was ok. i just don't understand where it could be added.

by the way the first picture comes up is the little company i con i use in my signtaure, after that all the pictures are porn...