On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 06:27, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > One obvious reason (yes I've got those as well) is that someone with an > unsecured Outlook is spreading one of the newer viruses. One of them > (the name escapes me right now) inserts a random email address (from > Outlook list) as sender in mails from an infected system. So it is > actually not you sending the mail, it just looks like it. And you get > blamed by AV-software around the world ...
I'm sure this is what's happening. I got 24 of these bloody things this morning =O( And each email had up to 15 messages listed within them. Someone's Doze box has been a *very* busy infected bunny. Someone just saved a load of our emails to this list, and when [s]he then got infected, the virus scanned these saved emails for addresses for both the To: and From: fields of the email then sent. That isn't the really sad thing. The really sad thing is that Symantec, who know full well that this is the most usual type of worm/virus these days, still sells software that creates this spam out of them, wasting yet more bandwidth, sending these reports to people who've so far had nothing to do with the infection. And then that sysadmins that should know better, like those at Government sites for instance, are stupid enough to leave them switched on... Ta, -- o o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /v\ark R. Bowyer http://www.bowyer.screaming.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] `-' --------------------------------------- /"\ ...fingerprint = 7924 9E9E 7B91 225E B065 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign 1024D/15140DC1 39D0 551D ABE6 1514 0DC1 X Against HTML Mail -------------------------------------------- / \ SEATTLE (vb.) To make a noise like a train going along.
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