--- David Parenteau <kitfox_at_firstlight.net> wrote:
> The worm, while running, searches on the computer it
> is on for any email addresses in HTML files (Like
> your web cache), text, address books, etc,
> and selects both a random To: and a random From:
> address from these options. So, if you send Email
> to "Mike" and "Mike" gets this virus, his
> computer will start sending email out as if it is
> from you, because the virus sees your email address
> somewhere on his computer, and fakes it being
> from you. This also means that people don't have
> any easy way of figuring out that it came
> from "Mike", and so send you a message saying you
> have a virus, which you don't, while Mike actually
> does, but doesn't get any message warning him.
Thing is though, the IPs didn't match mine.... As
well, I did say I've got SMTP and POP3 blocked... How
could it send an email?? I don't even have any POP3
clients on my comp... I (think I) nuked even outlook
express...
-=WhiteWulfe=-
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Received on Wed Mar 10 2004 - 21:40:05 CST