Thanks Andy and George for the virus information. I just returned from
a week's vacation and had several email messages from friends referring
to similar email I never sent. So, I especially thank George for his
summary of the Bugbear virus. This is a really good example of the
spoofing, as my computer hasn't even been on for 5 days!
regards,
- Gregg
On Saturday, October 5, 2002, at 05:03 PM, George L Smyth wrote:
The Bugbear virus uses email spoofing, so this has nothing to do with
his email
personally. When it infects a computer, it grabs a random email
address from
the person's address book and places it into the From area (note
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/
w32.bugb...@mm.html).
In this way, it appears that the virus is coming from someone who had
nothing
to do with the infection in the first place.
Unfortunately, some virus programs send a notice to the person in the
From
area, telling them that they sent the virus. This only leads to
confusion,
since the person never sent the email in the first place.
Don't open attachments without knowledge that someone sent one (send
them an
email asking if they did send one before opening it). Ensure that you
have an
antivirus program running when you do open an attachment, just in case
you were
inadvertently sent an infected file. It's just a cost of doing
business on the
Internet.
Cheers -
george
--- Andy Schmitt <aschm...@warwick.net> wrote:
I don't have your direct email address so I couldn't send it just to
you..
I'm really happy my ISP does this...
andy
