Al
At 03:54 PM 7/28/2004, you wrote:
I don't believe I'm actually adding a message to this off-topic thread. But maybe it'll correct the assumption that everybody keeps making, and reduce the total number of messages. :-P
These days, viruses almost never come from the person they appear to. They generally come from an infected computer belonging to person A, who also has people B and C in their address book. The virus on A's computer reads the address book, and gins up a message to look like it is from B to C, and plants a copy of itself in that message. That way:
* It spreads itself to C's computer. Actually, it generates lots of infected messages, but none of them looks like it came from A.
* If caught at C's computer, C cannot figure out whose computer is actually infected (it looks like B's computer, but it isn't). So it is impossible to warn A.
So it both propagates itself (survival of the "species") and protects its own existence (survival of the individual). Very Darwinian behavior.
No cheers! DaveT
At 02:16 PM 7/28/04 -0400, Bernie Baymiller wrote:How do you know? Norton says my computer's clean...checks every Friday evening. Could somebody be targeting me with those things?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark A Patton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> MYKEY and SBBAY are infected w/ Music_MP3.exe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
