Re: [Bug-gnubg] the modern plague and cholera

[Jim Segrave]

On Tue 04 Mar 2003 (21:58 +0100), Achim Mueller wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Someone from mindspring.net is faking an old e-mail address of me
> (address@hidden) and sending virus e-mails among others to this
> list. If you are using windows, please be careful opening any
> attachments of e-mails with the address mentioned above. I already
> informed the hostmaster of mindspring.net.

I believe one of the current virii uses randomly chosen addresses out
of the mailboxes of the infected machine and forges them as the sender
address. The infected machine on mindspring may well be simply the
victim of lack of anti-virus software rather than malicious intent.

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Jim Segrave           address@hidden