On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 08:21:14PM -0500, Dennis Myers wrote: > Wow, I have been getting email with the blaster worm attached by the bucket > full. All addressed to the business email address or saying that my send > failed to soandso because the attached file has a worm. And the so called > contaminated file is attached. Funny though I use kmail with firewalls one on > the machine and one on the router and none of the addresses that I supposedly > sent the worm to are in or ever have been in my address book. A ruse or will > kmail or linux somehow transmit a worm to an unknown email address? Any one > have an idea what is going on and or seen this type of email before? I can > find no indication that I have the blaster worm. And if I did why would it > work? Time for a disk wipe? TIA for any advice.
If I had to guess I'd say it's spoofing addresses. I get it all the time from my work addy, people mailing me I've sent them a virus when it was really somebody from one of the lists I'm on. Todd
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