On 4/11/02 6:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> This is really interesting. I have a friend with the same symptoms as you...
> 
> MacOS 9 / Entourage 2001... Same virus being distributed from her account...
> She only does email from that Mac, so it is quite a mystery.
> 
> If you figure this out, I'd be very interested in the results.

Many of these viruses/trojans for the PCs lately operate by faking their
return addresses. This is part of the description of the W32.Klez.E@mm from
the Symantec site:

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>> In addition, the worm searches the Windows address book, the ICQ database,
>> and local files (such as .html and text files) for email addresses. The worm
>> sends an email message to these addresses with itself as an attachment. The
>> worm contains its own SMTP engine and attempts to guess at available SMTP
>> servers.
>> 
>> The subject line, message bodies, and attachment file names are random. The
>> from address is randomly chosen from email addresses that the worm finds on
>> the infected computer.

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