On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Shannon Roddy wrote: > On Jan 28, 2004, at 7:33 AM, will hill wrote: > > That spoofing is interesting. Being a good Zealot, I imagine you > > don't have any M$ systems up and running. That would make it > > impossible for you to really be sending those mails. Can you pinpoint > > the origin of the spoofed mail? I wonder where the program got your > > address and why. Are other people on this list being spoofed like > > that? > > > > Doesn't matter if I have any windows systems running. The virus spoofs > the sender's address. So, if you are in someone's address book, > chances are "you" are sending out copies of the virus.
And when the recipients server bounces the message, the real "you" gets the bounce. I can stop the virii, but it's harder to stop the bounces. Luckily bayes is starting learn them so some end up in my spam box. ray -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
