On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Anthony Farr wrote:

> I've seen this kind of address on some spam e-mails, and I've read that
> they are sent directly into your mail reader while online, rather than
> being downloaded from your ISP's mail server.  That's why they have the
> strange address details.  Just what I read but as I have no effing idea
> how email works I'd probably believe anything I read :)

It's the Badtrans virus.  More details available from any anti-virus site.

It comes with an executable program which pretends to be a Word document 
and does something to the registry.

dave
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