Posted by adamapple76 at pool-141-157-115-245.balt.east.verizon.net on August 02, 2002 at 20:18:47:
In Reply to: I received a virus that had the sender as 'Ming'.. posted by Tom (POJK) on August 02, 2002 at 20:00:50:
: ...which worried me a little - anyone else get this? Of course, it could be another Ming, but that seems a little unlikely?
whoever is infected with it, when they browse a webpage and open your posts, it stores the email addresses contained within the posts, right? Then it sends the virus to people whose email addys you've seen on the net, even if you didn't send them any email.
Then it spoofs the from field using addresses from the same place, so that you may open the attachment, thinking its from soemone you know. That way the infected computer its sending from is not really identified.
Adam