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Re: email virus ==> over the top

  • From: Mike Tancsa
  • Date: Thu Aug 21 14:57:28 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