Re: (TV) Look,my beautiful girl friend

[Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com>]

At 8:53 PM +0100 5/6/02, Keith Allison wrote:
> What's all this about then?

Keith--

A message went out to the list "from" you with this subject line. 
It's classic Klez worm.  This worm scans the victim's hard drive for 
email addresses, sends to at least one of them (with an infected 
attachment), and picks one lucky one as the apparent "from" address. 
So you may not have been hit with it, but someone else with your 
email address on their machine got it.  But the email then _appears_ 
to be from you, even though you never sent it.

I've received a couple bounces over the last week or two, and the 
message's "return-path" header usually contains the victim's real 
email address.  The software for the list, however, has removed that 
info.  (Yes, it's quite disturbing to see a "my beautiful girlfriend" 
message with your name in the From: header, to someone you've never 
heard of.  And that it's a bounce is more disturbing--who knows how 
many got through.)
--
Maurice Rickard
http://mauricerickard.com/
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