Thanks Andy and George for the virus information. I just returned from
a week's vacation and had several email messages from friends referring
to similar email I never sent. So, I especially thank George for his
summary of the Bugbear virus. This is a really good example of the
spoofing, as my computer hasn't even been on for 5 days!
regards,
- Gregg
On Saturday, October 5, 2002, at 05:03 PM, George L Smyth wrote:
> The Bugbear virus uses email spoofing, so this has nothing to do with
> his email
> personally. When it infects a computer, it grabs a random email
> address from
> the person's address book and places it into the From area (note
> http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/
> w32.bugbear@mm.html).
> In this way, it appears that the virus is coming from someone who had
> nothing
> to do with the infection in the first place.
>
> Unfortunately, some virus programs send a notice to the person in the
> From
> area, telling them that they sent the virus. This only leads to
> confusion,
> since the person never sent the email in the first place.
>
> Don't open attachments without knowledge that someone sent one (send
> them an
> email asking if they did send one before opening it). Ensure that you
> have an
> antivirus program running when you do open an attachment, just in case
> you were
> inadvertently sent an infected file. It's just a cost of doing
> business on the
> Internet.
>
> Cheers -
>
> george
>
>
> --- Andy Schmitt <aschmitt@WARWICK.NET> wrote:
>> I don't have your direct email address so I couldn't send it just to
>> you..
>> I'm really happy my ISP does this...
>> andy
Received on Sun Oct 6 18:06:10 2002
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