Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/09
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It's not sinister or ominous at all.
Even though the Microsoft Outlook users of the LUG can't see it, every
message sent to the LUG is delivered to every recipient with the email
address of the sender in it. The message that you are now reading (despite
the fact that Outlook tells you it is sent by owner-leica-users on behalf
of Brian Reid) is plainly marked as
From: Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
All the Klez.W32 virus does is look in your mailbox to find the addresses
of people who have sent you mail, and send copies of itself to all of those
people. Using a forged sender address, to make it harder for you to track
down who has the virus.
If you want to avoid this risk, then don't send email to the LUG, just
listen. Then your email address will not be in anyone's mailbox, and the
virus will never find you.
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