[AktiviX-discuss] Spam...

[Charlie Harvey]

It'll be someone with your address on their machine who's got 
infected with one of the many whingedoze worms like mydoom:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.mydo
om.aj at mm.html

These go through your harddrive looking through email 
addresses, find 2 and send to 1 as though they'd come from the 
other ('spoofed from address' is what the techies call it).

Cheers,
Charlie

Picture the scene, it's 9:03 on 15 Nov 2004, and Dan says:

| Allo,
| 
| There seems to be a lot of spam going on in Aktivix-world, including a 
| spam e-mail I sent to myself...! i.e. it came from dan at aktivix.org, so 
| presumably it's been going out to others too.  It got sent out on 
| Saturday, so it can't be anything lurking on my machine coz it wasn't 
| turned on.  Thoughts?
| 
| Dan
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