Saturday at 21:06, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: > Yeah, you're right there. I've had people email me asking why I sent them a > virus... I only had to say "I'm running Linux, so I can't send you a virus". > That and "check out the headers - that's what tells the truth". I recently > had about 10 viruses come into my inbox, and the funny thing is, they were > all supposed to be FROM me TO me. Doing a little checking, I found out that > one of my contacts had gotten a virus, and of course it was spoofing > everything. What happens is, the virus raids their address book, and randomly > sends out viruses to everyone in that address book, and it picks a random > user from the address book to spoof from. It took all of about 30 seconds to > figure out where it was coming from - I ended up going over to her office and > cleaning up the system, and the emails disappeared. Funny how that works...
How can you know exactly who it came from? I realize that such mostly comes from infected windoze boxes, and I'm thinking that someone out there who has my email in their address book has a virus which has been spoofing my address, like the one Tom & Karen Pino got. The question is who? -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Russ. Sick of democrat and republican lies? http://badnarik.org/whybadnarik.php What is freedom, really? See this great flash presentation: http://www.isil.org/resources/introduction.swf ---------------- "You have plenty of rights in this country, provided you don't get caught exercising them." -- Terry Mitchell ---------------- Talking against Religion is unchaining a Tyger; the Beast let loose may worry his Deliverer. ---------------- http://www.TruthAboutWar.org Visit my nursery: http://www.angelfire.com/linux/behnesnursery/ The Behne Family Genealogy Project: http://www.usgenealogy.net/members/rwbehne/
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