The new polymorphic e-mail viruses can look into a person's addressbook and
forge mails appearing from someone in that address list. 
Nerd from Hell

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 3:16 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Watch out for e-mail attachments from this address
> 
> 
> Robert Seeberger wrote:
> > 
> > Its not from Ritu Ko is it?
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 10:41 AM
> > Subject: Watch out for e-mail attachments from this address
> > 
> > > I got a message bounce with a virus attached.  Apparently 
> some system is
> > > mailing out a virus making it look as if it's from ME, 
> and one of them
> > > bounced.
> > >
> > > So I'd recommend that if you get any off-list mail from 
> me, you delete
> > > any with attachments unless you've been specifically told 
> by me in an
> > > earlier e-mail that I'm sending you an attachment, and 
> that the name
> > > matches the name I gave you.
> > >
> > > Julia
> 
> I couldn't tell who it was from.  The bounce I got just said
> 
>     The following mail can't be sent to XXXxxxxx@Xxxxxxxx:
> 
>     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>     To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>     Subject: roar. The crowd loved it. The party outside his
>     The file is the original mail 
> 
> and there was the virus as attachment.
> 
> (I x'ed out the address it was being sent to.  Anyone who suspects
> they're infected who wants to know what the address was can have it
> off-list upon request.)
> 
> If the bounce had had full headers from the original message, I'd be
> able to track it down more easily, but of course it didn't.  :(
> 
>       Julia
> 
> 

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