Re: COMP: Virus -Bogus (STEVE)

Do I understand you correctly that if someone has my email address on their PC
in
any form, the virus can use my address as if I sent the email, but really the
email came from the infected machine ?

Sandra

Steve Szabo wrote:

> Cathy,
>
> That e-mail was not from "billmaryott@home.com".  home.com no longer exists.
> That email contained one of the variants of the KLEZ virus that is making
> the rounds again and again.  One of the things it does is to spoof the
> return address by choosing an address at random from those found on the
> infected computer.  You may be able to track down who it came from by
> tracing the IP address of the sending computer found in the header of the
> message, but I cannot tell you how to do so with AOL mail since they have
> such a weird way of handling their mail.
>
> This virus is also interesting in that it will pick addresses not only from
> the address book, but from any file that has addresses stored in them.  This
> may be from a cached web page, a file with e-mail addresses in it, etc.  It
> also uses its own SMTP engine to send the messages so the infected person
> will not see the messages sent in their sent items folder of their e-mail
> program.  The only real clue, besides a slowing of the normal processing of
> files is extraordinary usage of the internet connection (and since most
> people no longer have an external modem, which I highly recommend, they
> never see all that activity).
>
> Bottom line is that bill and mary are not the ones who sent the
> e-mail--someone else did who had their now defunct address and your address
> on their computer.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cathycampi@aol.com [c*@aol.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 8:50 PM
> To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [iris-talk] COMP: Virus -Bogus billmaryott@home.com
>
> Just received a direct email from "billmaryott@home com" Message  said
> announcing a new website BUT attached was a zip file not an URL so I deleted
> it. I decicided to check it out and went back,Downloaded and checked the zip
> file. It definitely contains a virus so DONT OPEN IT.
>
> If it wasn't such a serious thing I would be tempted to tease Bill about my
> not ordering this year...
>
> Cathleen Campi
>
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