>Some of the virii will assemble a sender email address from those it >finds on the infected computer, using first names and domains that are >not associated with one another, so you really have no idea who it really >came from.
And sometimes they make up addresses to seem like they are legit. I got a bunch not long ago claiming to be from "support" or "info" or similar things. It was trying to claim that I had sent a virus, and attached was a utility to get rid of the virus that I sent. It probably would have been a bit more effective at fooling me if A: I wasn't on a Mac, and B: if it hadn't come to me claiming to be from a company/domain that I happen to control (and thus knew that the addresses didn't exist, and that the email itself was bogus). In the end it turned out to be my sister's PC that was infected with the virus (tracked from the IP address in the headers, which told me what ISP the virus came off of, and based on the address it went to and was claiming to be from, my sister would have had both on her computer, and she used the ISP the virus really came from... so a quick trip to her house and an AV scan later revealed she had been infected) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
