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While it is common for an organization that has been infected to seek
out the source of the infection, it is not necessary to send anyone any of
your e-mails. If your system is properly defended, incoming e-mail with
infected attachments will be detected. In fact, in many organizations,
these e-mails never reach the end user, as they are deleted at the e-mail
gateway level.
In this case, it sounds like his server got infected by something running
locally. It would not be infected just from you or anyone else sending him
an infected e-mail -- the Trojan or virus needs to be run in order to infect.
If you want to be more certain that your system is not infected, you can
use an antivirus scanner or a Trojan horse scanner (Moosoft, for
example) to see if you have malware on your system. If you find
something, you could share that information.
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