On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:56, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Or so you think. The virus reads the victim's address book, randomly > creates new combinations from the content of the address book and some > more made up stuff, and uses that as From:. Then you receive that email > and decide the person in From: has sent it???
This happened to me once. A whole lot of people I knew got a virus with my address in the 'from' field. I'm sure it was one of the other people in the group, and the virus picked _my_ address from the address book to spoof as the 'from' address. What made it worse is that these were people to whom I had been extolling the virtues of linux. Then they think they got a virus from my computer! Yuri
