Thus spake Damian G ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On 23 Apr 2002 01:39:07 -0400 > Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 00:42, Damian G wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 01:30:18 -0500 > > > "J. Craig Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Damian G wrote: > > > > > > > > > > but my point is, probably you can't track it down to a single person, >virtually > > > > > everyone who has you on their adress book can be sending them.. > > > > > > > > > > HTH > > > > > > > > SHEESH! > > > > > > > > Why in hell would I worry about a virus written for a windoze machine > > > > running outlook? I don't do windoze. You do, however, Damian, make the > > > > point I was trying to get across. If you are getting one on these > > > > infected emails sent to you, and the mail service is advising you that > > > > you are the originator of the email but you are clearly not the > > > > originator. Then it is my contention that the infected machine must have > > > > your address. It is a no-brainer! How in hell would the code in the > > > > virus "know" to use your email address as the sender: YOU ARE IN THE > > > > ADDRESS BOOK ON THAT INFECTED MACHINE.
There is another posiblity. A friend of my wife has a cable connection. The cable company allows someting like 5 email addresses. A while back they started to get messages from the cable company that they had an email virus and to get rid of it (no assistance was offered in doing this BTW). After several days of near panic, as virus scanners pronounced them clean and the cable company was threatening to cut them off, the truth emerged. My wife's friend's mother had one of the email accounts. It was something like Sheila04. Now, it transpires that there had previously been a customer who had used this email address, but who was no longer a customer. So they reused the email address. Unfortunately the ex-customer still had at least something on her machine configured with her former email address, so when *she* got the virus and it started sending out emails, the return address was Sheila04.... -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann Scherchen. |
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