[RTTY] virus

[ka3hsw at earthlink.net]

On 9 Aug 2003 at 0:42, k7wm wrote:

> Greetings. I have had several reports that a virus is going out with my
> e-mail. Norton shows me nothing on my machine. Is anybody else getting one
> from me..?? 73 de
> Wayne k7wm at i10net.com
> 
> _______________________________________________


Most of the viruses circulating right now "spoof"...  that is, they create an e-mail 
message that appears to come from an address stolen from the address book or 
HTML files in the infected computer's web cache.  The "From" address is usually 
not an indicator of where the message actually originated from.  Some even steal 
the text of an existing e-mail stored on the infected computer!  (I've received a 
couple, supposedly from the Ashampoo Registration Team, which would indicate 
that someone who has registered Ashampoo's PowerUp XP, and saved the 
registration confirmation e-mail, has my e-mail address saved in their address book, 
or it appears in a web page that is cached on their computer, and the virus has 
stolen both the text and "From" address from that message and tried to send itself 
to me)

73 de KA3HSW