Theos-Talk Archives (August 2004 Message tt00213)

Morten N. Olesen wrote:
> I tend to follow my intuition...
> Anyways I am sure it is not a worm or a virus, - not a Bagle. 
> I have checked.
> So what is it then ? 
> A Trojan Horse and a hacker with a bad sense of humor?
> I think so.
I am 99.9% sure that there is someone on this list who has been 
infected with a virus (since the attachment was removed, I don't know 
which one). There was probably an email from you somewhere in their mail 
(almost certainly Microsoft Outlook) to this group. The virus sent 
emails to every email address it could find, using random emails from 
the same list to plug into the "FROM" section. By coincidence, it chose 
your name to go to this group.

When viruses started using email to propagate, people would discover 
they were infected by all the feedback they would receive. By changing 
the "FROM" address, it becomes much more difficult to find the infected 
machine. The only thing you can be sure of is that, if you receive an 
email with a virus attachment, the person in the FROM: field is almost 
certainly NOT the sender.

Bart