email virus ==> over the top

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Thu Aug 21 18:53:24 UTC 2003



Probably not. The virus grabs a From address at random from the infected 
person's email in box.  So its more likely someone who has got mail FROM 
those people rather than those people. See
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100561.htm

To quote,
"The "From:" address may be spoofed with an address extracted from the 
victim machine."


         ---Mike

At 10:10 AM 21/08/2003 -0500, neal rauhauser wrote:

><user>@cisco.com
><user>@tacnet.com
><user>@wcom.com
><user>@sprint.com
>
>
>   Looks like my internetwork equipment vendor and my two favorite peers
>have their Windoze stuff in a complete state of 'higgledy piggledy' - a






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