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

On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 01:25, -ray wrote:
> 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.

Ah, ok.

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