Theos-Talk Archives (February 2004 Message tt00106)

Dennis Kier wrote:
> Investigating the message that seemed to come from you, the attachment
> contained the file,"yrubijakspo.exe"
These days, the one place you can be reasonably sure a virus did NOT 
come from is the name in the FROM: field. It used to be that people 
would find out that they were infected by large volumes of mail being 
returned, or they would trick a virus by putting an invalid address as 
the first one in their Outlook address book. Viruses got around this by 
using their own sendmail facility, which, in addition, forges a random 
name from the victim's mailing list as the FROM: name.

Bart