Re: virus: Appeal for advice

From: Ant (antallan@mac.com)
Date: Tue Sep 02 2003 - 13:10:52 MDT

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    > ... was not really the address from which they were sent from.

    One too many from, here… The superfluous preposition meme strikes again!

    On Tuesday, Sep 2, 2003, at 19:03 Europe/London, rhinoceros wrote:

    >
    > [Blunderov]
    > I have been getting a lot of mail returned to me as undeliverable. The
    > trouble is I never sent out the mail which is being returned to me.
    > Some mail is entitled 'that movie', a title which I have never used,
    > some is entitled 'my details' which IS a title I have used sometimes
    > in my former scambaiting activities.
    >
    > <snip>
    >
    >
    > [rhinoceros]
    > No need to worry, Blunderov. We all receive them these days.
    >
    > Someone who had your e-mail address in their address book was infected
    > by a virus. Then the virus started sending out infected e-mails to
    > addresses it found there, using your own address, which was also found
    > there, as a return address ("From:") .
    >
    > Some of these emails were sent to addresses which were no longer
    > valid. So, those messages were "returned" to you as undelivered,
    > because they appeared as sent by you.
    >
    > And don't worry about looking bad. One can easily see in the headers
    > that the "From:" address was not really the address from which they
    > were sent from.
    >
    >
    > If you are still curious about the route this message followed, you
    > can follow the "Received from" "by" lines, starting from the last one
    > and going upwards. Keep in mind that some of the bottom "Received
    > from" "by" lines can also be fake.
    >
    >
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