Re: OT - Norton AntiVirus message

From: Bob Tom (tigers@bserv.com)
Date: Sun Aug 25 2002 - 16:56:43 EDT


At 08:52 PM 8/25/02 +0000, you wrote:
> Dollars to donuts, this is what happened:
>
> Someone out there has the Klez worm, and also has your e-mail address
>as well as "Linda Wetherall"'s address stored somewhere on their
>computer. Could be in their address book, or just in a saved message
>on their system somewhere. The worm sent itself to "Linda Wetherall"
>and spoofed the from address to be from you. The e-mail system that
>handles "Linda Wetherall"'s e-mail detected the virus and bounced the
>message to what it thought was the sender... you. Jon

Thanks!!! For a moment, I thought that maybe I had contracted
VD or something :-) Not good at my age :-)

Bob



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