[etni] Re: viruses

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> Thus, the owner does not know his/her computer has been infected;
> the recipients of the infected messages believe they received infected
> messages from someone else, and start calling/e-mailing this latter
> person trying to "alert" about the virus seemingly originating from that
> computer;
> in the meantime, one or more of the recipients of this mass mailing
> opens the attachment, and - see the beginning of my explanation. Next
> round.
>
> To find out where the virus really came from, you need to open the full
> header of the message containing the malicious attachment. It will
> reveal the real source.
>

Yeah -- someone ought to mention this to those anti-virus programs that
automatically send out alerts to the person in the "from" field.  I've
gotten dozens of these recently for emails that I didn't send.

Bari

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