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Re: email virus ==> over the top
From: Mike Tancsa <mike () sentex net>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 14:53:24 -0400
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
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