On Saturday, Mar 6, 2004, at 13:49 America/New_York, WhiteWulfe wrote:
> --- David Parenteau <kitfox_at_firstlight.net> wrote:
>> This virus, like just about every other email worm
>> these days, randomly selects an email address to
>> spoof from. This simply means that the person
>> who is infected has your email address somewhere in
>> their computer, whether it be a text file, address
>> book, or even html cache.
>>
>> That way people who get it might be dumb enough to
>> email you and say "Hey, Brandon! Quit sending me
>> stuff like that!" when you didn't send it at all,
>> thus keeping the real virus safe.
>
> Funny, I'm not infected, and I've got POP3 and SMTP
> blocked on my comp... So how does it send messages to
> people using my information, when I've no contacts on
> any POP3 client or Yahoo? :D Sounds more like a
> random email harvest thingy to me...
All it needs is your address. If you've ever sent anyone email or sent
mail to a mailing list (duh), your address is out there somewhere in
someone's mailbox and/or web cache. Yahoo's address censoring probably
helps a bit but messages delivered directly still have your real
address in them. I don't think they actually harvest addresses for
their creators but they do open back doors on infected machines.
I've been getting a steady stream of virus warnings from a brainless
email gateway in Armenia and I don't even run Windows.
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Received on Wed Mar 10 2004 - 08:10:20 CST