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August 27, 2003
Warning
Got some weird emails while I was gone to class that Mike sezs look like someone's spoofing my email address and attaching the new & improved SoBig virus. So if you get an email purporting to be from me with an attachment, delete it....I don't know any of y'all well enough to exchange attachments anyway.
Sorry for any inconvenience, but I'm not the asswipe that's doing it.
Posted by Rita at August 27, 2003 08:47 PM
Comments
That's characteristic of Sobig. It means it found your email address on the system of someone else (either address book or web cache or whatever) and uses it either for the "From:" or "To:" address in the emails it sends.
Posted by: Cracker Barrel Philosopher at August 28, 2003 09:15 AM
I suspect it's probably someone from school that got infected. One of my instructors commented yesterday that she'd been getting them with email addresses from a summer class she taught, which I took. She would email announcements or assignment reminders to everyone in class through a distribution list. So I'd bet that's where it's coming from.
But I wanted to let everyone know just in case it wasn't.
Posted by: Rita at August 28, 2003 09:31 AM