[Boatanchors] viruses

[J. Forster]

Occam's razor suggests that if one lister gets a virus laden email from another lister, any connection with random mail searches via Google or some such is unlikely in the extreme. Viruses and worms typically scan the infected machine and use email addresses found there to compose to and from fields in the virus message's headers.

Thus, if one lister gets a virus spam from another lister, someone on the list is likely infected. FWIW.

-John



Keith Heitzmann wrote:

> At 05:10 PM 7/26/2004 -0700, Glen Zook wrote:
> >Someone is "spoofing" my E-Mail address and sending
> >out viruses.  I just ran my anti-virus program and my
> >machine is "clean".
> >
> >The E-Mail address on the "spoofed" is "Gzook"
> ><gzook at YAHOO>COM>.  When I am using this Yahoo
> >account, which I do on all of the reflectors, the
> >correct way that it comes down is "Glen Zook"
> ><gzook at yahoo.com>.  Note that my name is spelled out
> >and that yahoo.com is in all lower case letters and
> >NOT upper case as in the "spoofed" E-Mail address.
>