Re: I am not in India II

From: Karljürgen Feuerherm (cuneiform@rogers.com)
Date: Sat Jul 19 2003 - 09:14:33 EDT

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    As it happens, the same virus hit me again from another source yesterday.

    The odd thing was that when I first got it, it was *not* attached to a bogus
    message, but to a legitimate message from this list. Must attach itself in
    transit.

    K
    > At 00:44 +0200 2003-07-19, Adam Twardoch wrote:
    > >From: "Michael Everson" <everson@evertype.com>
    > >> >everson@yahoo.co.in
    > >
    > >This merely means that somebody has a virus who had both Michael and
    Roozbeh
    > >in his/her address book.
    > >
    > >People who believe that e-mails with a particular name in the From field
    > >must come from that very person can be called, ehem, naiive.
    >
    > That's an interesting way of writing the diaeresis on naïve, Adam. :-)
    >
    > >This particular virus sends itself around, identifying the sender as one
    of
    > >various addresses from the infected person's address book. In addition,
    the
    > >virus swaps the usernames and domains around, so addresses such as
    > >everson@yahoo.co.in are created.
    > >
    > >So, basically, it means that the virus probably comes from a person who:
    > >1. Is in Singapore.
    > >2. Has following entries in the address book: everson@...,
    ...@yahoo.co.in,
    > >roozbeh@... and ...@mail2.gpmnet.com.
    > >3. Uses Microsoft Windows.
    > >
    > >Anybody ring a bell?
    >
    > James Seng?
    > --
    > Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
    >
    >



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