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Re: Virus from Dave Koudys?
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lugnet.general
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Date:
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Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:17:39 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Rob Doucette writes:
> In lugnet.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > In lugnet.general, David Koudys writes:
> > > In lugnet.general, Rob Doucette writes:
> > > > I received an odd e-mail message with nothing more than a *.pif attachment
> > > > from dkoudys@*somethingiforget*.ca. The message (which I deleted from the
> > > > server before grabbing my mail down) was sent to the e-mail address I used
> > > > *only* on the Super Chief Registry page.
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> > > Eeep!!
> > >
> > > I have no idea how this virus has my name on it!
> >
> > It infected someone that has you in their address book. That's my guess.
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> Could this have crawled the SC Registry page for the addresses? That is the
> only page that has both e-mail addresses used in the message.
Lar's guess might be right, but more likely someone who visited the SC
Registry has it cached in their browser, and the virus crawled that. Many
of the newer worms will crawl through cached pages and grab anything with
the foo@bar format.
James
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| (...) Could this have crawled the SC Registry page for the addresses? That is the only page that has both e-mail addresses used in the message. -Rob. (22 years ago, 27-Jun-02, to lugnet.general)
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