[B-Greek] READ IT IMMEDIATELY!

Paul Schmehl pschmehl at sbcglobal.net
Fri Mar 5 22:16:18 EST 2004


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph Weaks" <j.weaks at tcu.edu>
To: "B-Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 12:33 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] READ IT IMMEDIATELY!


> More specifically, someone who has your address in their address book
> is infected with the virus. These spoofing buggers pull a random
> address from all the addresses it has available on the local computer
> in order to spoof the "From:" field with it, causing a great deal of
> unnecessary embarrassment. If you are receiving "You have sent out a
> virus." messages from various ISPs, just ignore them and they will go
> away after a few days.
>
In fact they don't even need an address book.  They will harvest emails from
the cached files that your browser has.  So, if the person whose computer is
infected has even visited a website that has your email address on it, you
can be used as the "sender" for the virus.  And there's not a thing you can
do about it.  :-(

Paul Schmehl
pschmehl at sbcglobal.net
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/




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