Hello Anne,

Thursday, September 4, 2003, 2:30:41 PM, you wrote:

>> I was just trying to point out that the virus covers its tracks
>> well, and it may do little good to try to ID the 'sender'. Good 'ol
>> M$ virusware address books and emails provide a rich source of
>> 'senders'. A good virus might even put 'sources' below the real
>> sender, too, to add more difficulty.

AW> I know that it does this to some extent - btw, I've had two 'returned' 
AW> virused mails today, which I couldn't possibly have sent

Hey - now you're going to get some emails telling you that you have a
virus. :-) The senders will probably ignore the header - User-Agent:
KMail/1.5 - a bit hard to infect. :-) Just out of curiosity, what
User-Agent did the virus use?

AW> - but I  wouldn't have though that it could spoof the whole header
AW> array?

Some viruses are getting quite clever.

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