• To: gkholman@C... (G. Ken Holman)
• Subject: Re: Borrowed email address for virus
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 11:29:46 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: xml-dev@l... (XML-Dev Mailing list)
• In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.0.20020607071329.02aeae18@junk> from "G. Ken Holman" at Jun 07, 2002 07:20:08 AM

G. Ken Holman scripsit:

> Thankfully, I don't run MS-Outlook and my machine was powered off during 
> the onslaught (I got a hundred automatic filter message responses when I 
> retrieved my mail this morning) and it seems the virus borrowed my email 
> address from the infected machine, perhaps to disguise the source of the 
> infection.  

This happens to me all the time, because I am in lots of people's MS-Outlook
address books.  I run Linux, so the source of the virus can't be me.

I also suspect that some viruses are now masquerading as bounce-o-grams.

-- 
John Cowan <jcowan@r...>     http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.  --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

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