At 12:08 9/29/02, Garth Wood wrote:
Not surprising. The latest generations of these viruses "harvest" e-mail
address books and in some cases e-mail bodies (particularly those of you
benighted enough to use Microsoft Outlook ;-) ), and then insert random
e-mail addresses into both the "To:" and "From:" fields. About all we can
say for sure is that the virus attempt came from someone who has both John
Lind's e-mail address and the List address in his/her e-mail app,
somewhere. I also got a separate copy in my Inbox (I use Eudora Pro), so
whoever the unwitting third party is, he/she also has my e-mail address
somewhere.
This limits the potential vectors to about, oh, half a billion people
planetwide. :-/
Garth
My suspicion exactly. Indeed, my AV software just snared a "KLEZ" variant
sent directly to me from exactly the same domain while downloading the mail
a few minutes ago. Deleted the attached executable KLEZ worm file as the
mail was being downloaded; never got any further than the spooled-up
mail. I receive at least one per week . . . mixed in with the never-ending
deluge of "get rich instantly" scam-SPAM.
-- John
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