Hello Jernej, On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 20:42:21 +0100 GMT (21/03/03, 02:42 +0700 GMT), Jernej Simončič wrote:
> Don't do that! Most of modern viruses fake the From address, and you're not > helping anybody by replying to these messages. Klez found it's way to > yahoogroups mailing lists twice with my address in the From header, both > times I was flooded with "You have a virus!" messages (197 messages the > first time, too many to count the second time). Needless to say, the virus > did not originate from my computer. I remember I was one of those who received Klez from a source claiming to be you - at a time when your computer wasn't even switched on. I now discriminate better. If I know this virus uses random From addresses, I don't inform the "sender". If it is a run-of-the-mill virus, I *do* send an individual mail to the sender; several times I got a reply that they weren't aware of the virus but checked their system and clean it afterwards. (Those people usually need to call professioanls in to clean their systems, otherwise they would probably never have been hit, because in all cases those were old viruses.) -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? Message reply created with The Bat! 1.63 Beta/5 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using a Pentium P4 1.7 GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
