[Boatanchors] viruses

[Keith Heitzmann]

At 12:56 AM 7/27/2004 -0400, J. Forster wrote:
>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.
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>Thus, if one lister gets a virus spam from another lister, someone on the list is likely infected. FWIW.
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>-John

"Occam's razor"?   Getting a little deep here....    Anyway,  all I was saying about Google was that its easy to see how your email addresses are all over the Internet, not that google is the way  these robots/spiders are finding them.   You are correct in the way virus will send out emails from an infected PC, but you are a little short sited if you think thats the only way.   I know this for a fact.

Either way, I'm dropping this thread..........   it was just for informational puporses only.

73,
Keith KK5FE


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