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Guys, A lot of these virii are spoofing addresses, probably from Windoze computers -- the main culprits. They get installed on host machines, copy all of the addresses there and then send out email that looks like it came from the email addresses it got from the infected computer. Many email programs automatically copy any address it gets in email into its address book, so anyone who's ever posted on a list that one of these infected computers is subscribed to will probably get spoofed and even if you don't post there, you're address will get found somewhere and spoofed. I don't know if it's one of these types of virii, but Klez 32.xx type viruses are ones that repeatedly were showing up in "bounced" messages. I was getting the same crap from people, "why are you sending me infected email?" I run OSX which is based on BSD Unix. I've never had a virus problem in the 7 years I've run Macs, so I didn't have a virus program. But I downloaded Virex and ran it several times and it found nothing. I finally found out about these "spoofing" virii, set my spam filter to intercept all the bounces and quit worrying about it. JoeL Let On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 08:56 AM, Jack Farmer wrote: > Sorry I DID NOT send that e-mail. > > I'm on a Linux system to began with we don't do virus. > > My address is jack@ma*.th*.co* NOT web. > > 3. i could care LESS for any of the address in here. i have NO use for > them what so ever. > > I have NO idea who sent it or WHY this person i do NOT know claims to > have knowledge of me. > > Another person contacted me OFF list to ask me I told him the same > thing > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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