On Jan 17, 2005, at 9:13 PM, Alan Sargent wrote:
At 04:48 PM 17/01/05 -0600, Jerry Bryant jerrylbryant-at-sbcglobal.net |G-list| wrote:Apparently someone, and possibly now maybe others, that use a pc to send and receive email from the lists have at least one virus.
It's just as likely someone has scraped the addresses from the web "archive", which displays all our addresses in clear.
Viruses do not work that way. Viruses spoof the 'from' and 'to' addresses from address stores on the infected system, either outlook address books, or web cache files.
You may be getting some spam from this, but even in that arena, the vast majority of e-mail addresses are gotten via infected systems. It's hugely simpler to do it that way and you're more likely to get valid e-mail addresses.
Yes. if you're getting sent viruses, it's from an infected machine that has both the 'from' and 'to' addresses on it somewhere.
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