Thats a possibility, but since most worms / virii are disected very
quickly, with detailed descriptions of their inner workings outlined for
anybody who cares to look a wary spammer would be hesitant to device a
mechanism for shipping their bounty of addresses back to themselves for fear
of discovery. More likely this company had a minimal volume of email to
begin with and that through trustworthy channels. After their entire
internal address list wormed its way through every shady little smtp server
out there, some of which will certainly be loggin valid addresses to be sold
to the highest bidder, they were on the hit list with the rest of us.
*sigh* I hate spam.
-Rob
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