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Re: [edlug] Virus messages
> Ltely I have started to get messages from various postmasters saying that a
> message I have sent to some email address I don't recognise, carries the
> W32/Netsky.p@MM!zip virus. I presume that the contaminated messages are from
> some other machine, with my address spoofed as the sender.
Having spent... far too much time.. educating our users about the fact
that they *didn't* send a virus to their buddy, because if they *had*,
there would be a copy in their sent mail, n'est ce pas?, I can say that
you have nothing to fear. Have a look at nai.com for the descriptions of
any of the WinVir over the last few months, and you will see that almost
all of the WinVir spoof the sender's address.
And, as John McAulay said, it proves Windows is really only useful as a
games platform ;-)
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