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  • From: Willie McKemie <mckemie AT austinfarm.org>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] w32/bugbear.A@mm
  • Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 19:15:45 -0600

> PS. I just talked to my wife and she denied replying to any posts on
> "Market Farming" today. I most definately did not as I have been out of
> the house all day. Now that my memory is slowly starting to ebb back, I
> vaguely recall doing that reply to the "twist ties" thread several months
> ago. I have no idea how any kind of attachment got hooked to it or why it
> would pop up in my Juno account. Also we have never been signed up to the
> Shentel ISP. The mystery deepens. Once again I am sorry.
>
> Thoroughly baffled,
>
>
>
> Marlin Burkholder

It is common now for a virus or worm to get an address book on the
infected system and choose one entry to send to and another to
masquerade as. That is, the receiver (from the address book) sees a
false From: address (also from the address book).

So, the true sender may not be Marlin but someone that has both
Marlin's and the marketfarming addresses in an address book on an
infected system.

Is it time for a Linux plug? Almost all these things are not "computer
viruii or worms" but "microsoft viruii or worms". They are exploits of
blunders of the microsoft corporation. Exploits of Linux weaknesses
exist, but they are very rare.

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