Odd spam / virus - comments ?

Tue Mar 26 14:13:08 UTC 2002

In message <011301c1d4ad$b5676f10$2028a8c0 at carpenter>, "Peter Galbavy" writes:
>
>OK - As a knowledgeable bunch, maybe you lot can give me pointers.
>
>A customer / friend phoned me last night saying that I sent him a virus by
>e-mail. Now, I am far more careful than that - at least I hope. It turned
>out that it wasn't me, but a forgery. Now, that is not unusual, but what is
>that the recipient is someone I know.

There are worms out there (such as Nimda.E) that use Outlook address books
not just for lists of victims, but also as "From:" addresses.  In other
words, your involvement might be having sent email to someone else who 
is infected.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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