[NTLUG:Discuss] email spam question

[Bob Byron]

Alot of the viruses today do email spoofing.  The virus not only sends
itself to everyone in your address book, but randomly picks someone
from the address book as the "from" person.  In other words, one of
your friends gets a virus on his computer, your friends computer starts
sending the virus to addresses in his address book and it gives you 
the credit by saying the email is from you.

Here is a great explanation:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/spoofing/

Bob
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred James" <fredjame at concentric.net>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 11:23 AM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] email spam question


Recently I have been getting junk mail asking me, among other things, to 
be sure and forward the attachment to all my friends.
Then I started receiving "returns" from MAIL-DAEMON at .... indicating that 
"I" had forwarded these same messages to some unreachable address(es).
I knew I hadn't sent the messages, and I thought I knew the recipients 
weren't in my address book - but they (at least some) turned up in my 
"collected" address book.

In talking to my ISP about spam, the voice on the phone mentioned 
keeping an eye on my "Sent" folder for unrecognized messages (stuff I 
didn't send).  I had never thought, or heard, of that before thought it 
makes sense to me.  I checked my "Sent" folder and didn't find anything 
I didn't recognize.  Any comment?

BTW - yes, I sent copies of all the stuff to "abuse at ..."  I also just 
turned off "collecting" addresses (incoming and outgoing), set the 
collection limit to zero, and deleted all addressed in the "Collected" 
address book.


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