Its most likely Klez. When a computer is infected, it will grab an email
addy out of the infected machines address book, then send the virus with
that persons addy in the from field.
So it looks like it came from somewhere else. The headers tell the truth
though.

We get a couple of complaints each week.

-----Original Message-----
From: sui seto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 9:57 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Virus - Mass Mailing


Hi All,

I have a user who resigned a couple of months ago and I disabled his
account on NT and removed his  SMTP address from the system. (for example,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]). One day, he called telling me that his frient recevied a
email from him (from the address [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and that email was infected
with virus. He aksed me why this happened. I don't know the answer. His
account has been disabled and his eamil account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has also
been deleted from the system (we are using Exchange 5.5). Is this
something to do with mass mailing by the virus. In other words, if a pc is
infected with an email virus and my user's email address is on the address
book, the virus will impersonate my user using hisaddress, eg.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and send a virus infected email to other people on the adress
book. Is this possible? I am confused.

Thanks for your information.

Sui  

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