Windows virus lately?
listas at lozano.eti.br
listas at lozano.eti.br
Wed Jan 28 19:16:05 UTC 2004
Hi,
> Yesterday at school the support people mentioned that a new virus had crashed
> their mail server. Then my employer said she had received numerous virus
> infected emails last night. Last night and today I've been getting bounces,
> some of which said "hey this message YOU sent has a virus in it", and all of
> which had an attachment of some kind (probably the aforementioned virus).
>
> However, I have been using Linux almost exclusively for the past 2 weeks and
> the odd time I have booted to Win2k, I have not sent or received email.
It's a common practice by spammers to fake a from: from a valid mailbox.
Usually they get these addresses from web pages and public mailing lists like
this one. :-( Viruses should also do this.
[]s, Fernando Lozano
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