Some of these viruses and worms will pick an email address at random from
those available to it and put that one in the from field.  If Bagle does
that, the message may appear to come from you, but actually come from god
only knows where.

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On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Vaughn Treude wrote:

> Since somebody else brought this up...
> A colleague of mine replied to an email that supposedly came with me,
> containing the virus in question.  He figured one of my systems had the virus
> and sent it to his.  But a virus check revealed that none of my Windoze
> systems had it, and I don't expect the Linux machines could become infected
> with an MS virus.   Couldn't the "From" field have been faked?  I read
> something on the AVG anti-virus web page to that effect.
>
> Vaughn
>
>
> On Wednesday 03 November 2004 12:18, you wrote:
> > Posting a windows virus to a linux list. Duh.
> >
> > --
> > In 08 vote for a crook you can trust.
> > Del Boy for President.
> > http://www.ofah.net
> >
> > On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, JD Austin wrote:
> > > George wrote:
> > > > :))
> > >
> > > Price.com contains Virus I-Worm/Bagle.AZ
> > >
> > > --
> > > JD Austin
> > > Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC
> > > email: jd@twingeckos.com
> > > http://www.twingeckos.com
> > > phone/fax: 480.344.2640
> > >
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