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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000040.txt from 2004/02

From: Rebecca Hartong <rhartong@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] MyDoom has reached DR-L.
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 08:35:53 -0500

One of the really insidious things about these viruses/trojan horses is that
they'll grab an email address from the address book of the infected computer
and use that stolen email address as the "from" address when they send
themselves out to other people. Many of you have probably already received
"mail returned as undeliverable" sorts of messages indicating that you sent
some sort of email to a person you've never heard of. What's happened is
that the virus/trojan horse stole ~your~ email address from someone else's
computer and is using it to multiply! This happens even when your own
computer is virus-free.

As to the "winmail.dat" file...isn't this just a sort of 'business card'
attachment for email?

Rebecca Hartong