caleb68 opened this issue on Jul 11, 2002 ยท 97 posts
electroglyph posted Thu, 11 July 2002 at 7:40 PM
Folks! I got one from myself to myself! It really can happen. I run Norton on both my desktops and update every friday when the new defs come out. My work system email runs some godawful mil spec spyware and it told me my Yahoo webmail account sent one to my work address. I scanned the entire contents all files and inside zips on both systems and they were clean. If either were actually infected I would be getting a lot of complaints from people in my address books and I'm not. Yahoo is supposed to be running norton and scans all incoming attachments. None of us had it, but there is a webpage I generated that has both addresses. Klez not only scans the outlook mailbox it checks my documents and windows temp includinng webpages you visit. It reads text files and looks for the name@xxx.yyy pattern and trys all it finds as addresses. It will change the from in the message but usually shows the true sender if you show the routing information (press Bla,Bla,Bla button in Eudora). However, the one I got from myself still said the sender was me. This is just another way the virus pisses people off! They really could have not sent it. Lets all just agree to scan all our systems tonight.