[TriLUG] Virus Attachments

[rasch at raschnet.com]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:48:33PM -0500, "Roberto J. Dohnert" <webwarrior at gnu-darwin.org> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>  
> I ran into this this morning.  Several mails I have gotten from trilug
> have had the MyDoom and Sven Windows viruses as attachments.  Im not
> trying to get anyone in trouble and since I know some of ya I don't
> think you would do it intentionally.  I have sent the people whose
> e-mails had the virus attached a personal e-mail as a courtesy.  I
> wanted to make everyone aware of this was happening.

Mydoom, like many other recent viruses have forged the originator of the
email.  This means that the name/email which appears in the "From" field
of the virus you receive is likely NOT the person who has the virus.

David