Re: Bogus Email

From: hvdkooijat_private
Date: Sun Nov 04 2001 - 22:50:13 PST

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    On Sat, 3 Nov 2001 Thorat_private wrote:
    
    > For whatever reason, it seems that I have become the target (or masqueraded
    > source as the case may be) of an email prank.
    >
    > Someone originating from SERVER4 (193.128.138.68 [193.128.138.68]) is
    > sending out the email portion of the Nimda virus with *my* email address as
    > the FROM.
    
    That is normal behaviour for nimda in fact. It grabs a random email
    address from your mailbox and uses it as faked "From:" address.
    
    Hugo.
    
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