If it's the KLEZ virus, it impersonates someone else. It looks through the
messages that have been received and sends out messages purporting to be
one of the people who it finds. That makes is particularly hard to figure
out who really has the virus. I've been guilty of accusing at least one of
the FOT of having that virus until I learned how it worked. My sister had
a problem where she got a bunch of rejected e-mail messages returned to her
that actually were originated by someone else who had this virus and it
picked her e-mail address to impersonate. We did a complete check of her
system and it was clean. I believe that it has its own mailer, so you
wouldn't see the messages in your sent list if you had the virus
too. Thank goodness that it isn't wildly destructive.
Tony Drews
'63 TR-4 #95
Iowa Health System Information Technology Dept.
At 05:08 PM 12/13/2002, John Kipping wrote:
>I've just checked everything with the latest AVG data, and nothing shows up
>so AFAIK I didn't send it around
>John Kipping
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <n197tr4@cs.com>
>To: <RDWISMER@aol.com>; <fot@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 2:12 AM
>Subject: RE: DO NOT OPEN HAPPY NEW CHRISTMAS
>
>
> > I got one from John Kipping and Norton anti-virus caught it.
> >
> > Thanks Bob....
> >
> > Joe (A)
> >
> > > The apparent Christmas greeting form me is bogus. I did not send it. My
> > >guess is that it was a virus that my antivirus software stopped the
> > >attachment, but not the primary message.
> > >
> > >If any of our computer gurus is aware of a "Happy new Christmas" virus
>let me
> > >know about it off line.
> > >
> > >Sorry if this caused any one a problem, but we live in a cruel Cyber
> > >world.....................Bob Wismer
> > >K
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