Re: [Nolug] the spammers seem to have gotten me

On 9 Feb 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:

> But isn't that only relevant to lusers using MS Lookout?
>
> As John S. alluded to, it's a 3rd party who is spoofing you...

Not at all... joe and bob are unix users, but correspond with Mary, who
uses outlook. Mary gets infected, klez looks in her addressbook, finds
joe and bob, and sends a copy of the worm forged from joe to bob. if
rejected, then joe gets the bounce/reject message...and joe wonders why
he got the reject cause he never sent the message in the first place.

klez still accounts for about 80% of the attachments we filter....it's
pretty sad.

-ray

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Ray DeJean  				       	 http://www.r-a-y.org
Systems Engineer                    Southeastern Louisiana University
IBM Certified Specialist  	      AIX Administration, AIX Support
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