How to find sender of l-worm/swen.a

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Hi Ben,

Opening email should be safe enough, just make sure to don't click on any links.

Thanks

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Ben…  if you right-click on the unopened email (in 'Live', Aol, hotmail, gmail… all of them I can think of) a list should show up, with the bottom choice (usually*) being "Message Source". If you click on the message source it should open a new window, No* url.anything*, that will show you the email's header, sender, IP address… all kinds of information… safely.
 You will find the sender's address in there somewhere.

Hope this helps.

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Ben…  if you right-click on the unopened email (in 'Live', Aol, hotmail, gmail… all of them I can think of) a list should show up, with the bottom choice (usually*) being "Message Source". If you click on the message source it should open a new window, No* url.anything*, that will show you the email's header, sender, IP address… all kinds of information… safely.
 You will find the sender's address in there somewhere.

Hope this helps.

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AVG recently found the l-worm/swen.a malware on our computer. It shows that it was located in the windows live mail folder. I would like to find out who sent it but don't want to open the email. Is there a safe way to get this information?

We're using windows 7 business on a dell optiplex 620 computer.

Thanks.

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Hi Ben,

Opening email should be safe enough, just make sure to don't click on any links.

Thanks