Re: [ga] A special excite game

["Genie Livingstone" <genie@magi.net>]

This is Klez virus - one of its characteristics is to  scan email
addresses in the infected person's machine and cloak itself as FROM one
of those addresses NOT from the infected person's address - so most
likely, it is not Milton who has it, it is someone entirely different
who had Milton's email in their address book.  More info on this bugger
can be found in antivirus sites mcafee.com or symantec.com
cheers
Genie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Osbourne" <gro@direct.ca>
To: <ga@dnso.org>; "mueller" <mueller@syr.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: [ga] A special excite game


> At 06:32 PM 29/07/02 -0700, William X Walsh wrote:
>
> >Milton has a virus.
>
> I dunno. I once falsely (but privately) accused
> Bret Fausett of sending me one without first
> checking the headers. It turned out to be from
> another list member who shall remain nameless,
> I never notified that other member, but as it
> also went to the GA list that would have been
> piling on. Is Milton in Mexico?
>
> Mhybmdz 148.246.11.253
>
> That's the apparent originating IP and that's
> where the block leads. There's certainly nothing
> in the headers corresponding to syr.edu, though
> that's not definitive. I don't have other email
> from Milton to compare.
>
> I'm sure you know this, but some may be unaware
> that there are virii out there that will appear
> to come from someone, whereas they're actually
> from someone else who has that first someone in
> their address book, typically MicroSoft Outlook
> (and Express), AKA the world's largest open relay,
> although some virii do go so far as to get it
> from elsewhere on an infected system, any *@*.*
> will do. This must be more than 5 posts, sorry. -g
>
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