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Re: email virus ==> over the top
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 14:53:23 -0400
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:10:12 CDT, neal rauhauser <neal () lists rauhauser net> said:
No one loves me and I don't get much email from the folks who tolerate me. I just got back from having lunch with some guys who tolerate me and I found scads of messages from all over -the funniest among the bunch for our Nanog readers: <user>@cisco.com <user>@tacnet.com <user>@wcom.com <user>@sprint.com
Looks like my internetwork equipment vendor and my two favorite peers have their Windoze stuff in a complete state of 'higgledy piggledy' - a
No, it looks like some poor schmuck who happened to have those e-mail addresses somewhere on the disk has their windows system in trouble. W32/SoBig-F is known to forge the From: field. Which explains why I've gotten at least 103 "you sent us a virus" postings regarding my Linux laptop.. ;) Which of course just goes to show that people can be "behind the knowledge curve" no matter *what* operating system they happen to be using.
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- Re: email virus ==> over the top Joel Jaeggli (Aug 21)
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- Re: email virus ==> over the top JC Dill (Aug 21)
- Re: email virus ==> over the top Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 21)
- Re: email virus ==> over the top neal rauhauser (Aug 21)
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- Re: Email virus protection Crist Clark (Aug 21)