virus is our friend

Michael Havens wrote:
> Is this why I received a mail from an ISP informing me that I sent one of
> their customers a virus. I wasn;t even on my home computer (it was a school
> box) and I hadn't sent anyone anything. In fact, the user was and still is
> unknown to me.

Yeah, happens all the time. Your address had to be in
some file on the victim's computer.

I've got an account on a Linux box that is an advertised
address and gets lots of spam. I often get messages from
some Norton tool somewhere saying I had sent a virus.
They enclose a copy of the message - yet another Windows
worm. Didn't come from *that* box.

I just got a copy of the virus from an address at
aztecfreenet.org -- that's a Solaris based system, and
the mail system is a super-safe, extremely primitive
text based arrangement. Ain't no way it came from there.

Vic