Poss. virus

[Dave Alarie]

There's a virus in the wild which exploits an M$ Outlook weakness.  The
virus scavenges email addresses from the target system and then sends
email _from_ the target system, but substitutes the origination address
with an address scavenged from the system.

So, the mail is coming from some infected system that happened to have
your address in the address book.

I don't remember the name of the virus.  When I last looked, our
anti-viral software defended against 74k+ viruses and and variants.
 Five years ago the number was approaching 2000 and it seemed to me then
that too many people have way too much unstructured time on their hands.

Unfortunately, I don't have that problem.  If I did, then I'd have
finished rebuilding all four corners of my 4kQ.  <sigh>

Dave



DGraber460 at aol.com wrote:

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>I have received 3 e-mails from myself that I did not send, and a notification
>from another lister that he received a virus mail from me. I have checked
>both my computers and found no "gone.scr" file.
>Anyone else know what might be going one here, or have similar problems?
>I recently received about 5 list mails that had only virus warning text that
>made no sense to me. I only opened 1 and deleted the rest.
>If my machine is causing problems please help this non techie solve the
>problem.
>The two I received tonight are titled "your password", and "No waiting. It".
>They show as being sent from my machine, but I did _not_ send them. I haven't
>opened them yet.
>TIA. Sorry if my machine is corrupting things.
>
>Dennis
>Denver
>"Good judgment is a result of experience, which is often the result of poor
>judgment"
>


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thanksOkayBye
Dave



Regards,

David Alarie

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