Franklin wrote:

> Someone using windows somewhere that has my email address in their
> windblows address book has a virus. In the last two days I have gotten
> about a dozen emails in my yahoo bulk mail folder including attachments
> with .exe, .pif, and .scr extensions. And then today I got the message
> with the text below. Apparently it is attempting to propagate spoofing
> my address. Since I'm using ECS exclusively, I doubt it's me.
> 
> Franklin

unfortunately it's not that simple. There are virii out there with their 
own SMTP engines, which pick an address at random. They can be running 
on a "third" machine, if you will, meaning that neither you nor the 
person with your address in their address book own the machine that is 
sending out the virus messages. This stuff just keeps getting uglier.

-- 
John Stewart
Seattle, Washington, USA
"The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the 
exercises walking is the best." - Thomas Jefferson



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