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 > >
