Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Virus in Phong Message
From: John Collier <jbcollier@shaw.ca>
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 20:53:45 -0600

Is there any way to tell where it really came from?

John Collier

On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 08:24 PM, Brian Reid wrote:

> You did not get a virus over the LUG. You did not get a virus from 
> Phong.
>
> If you got a virus, you got it as individual email, bypassing the LUG, 
> from the person whose computer is infected.
>
> If the message said that it came from Phong, the one thing of which 
> you can be certain is that it did not. All modern viruses forge the 
> identity of the sender, and send the message in the name of someone 
> whose email address they find in the victim's mailbox.

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