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[Guest guest]

Chinese Traditional Medicine, " Judy Fitzgerald " <victoria_dragon@h...>

wrote:

> Someone has stolen my email identity and is using it to send spam

to people.

> I apologize to anyone who has received any of this spam with my

forged

> email address. I did NOT send it; my email address is being forged.

>

> As long-time readers of the list knows, I hate spam and spammers.

The only

> thing lower than the typical spammer is one who steals another's

email

> address to send his garbage.

>

> I would appreciate input from readers of this list on how to handle

this

> problem. I have sent emails to both hotmail and about

this

> problem. I am waiting to hear from . I sent the email

to abuse@

> and postmaster@ Does anyone have a better address for ?

>

> Thanks,

> Victoria

 

Hi,

let me try to explain how it works:

Its all about trojan horses and virus.

 

Vic's email address is in someones (MrFriendly's)

outlook address address-book,

(like: I thought to myself, hey, maybe one day I'll ask her

something/maybe I received an email from her through -groups and

my outlook saved her addy witout me even noticing it)

 

MrFriendly received an email 3 weeks ago which had a file attached to

it

which outlook opened without asking/warning (a .vbs

(VisualBasicScript) for example.

This tiny script (program) told outlook to :

-execute it automatically (you ticked the 'dont ask me this question

again' box)

-spread this tiny script to anyone who is in MrFriendly's outlook

addresslist

-this is done by sending automatic emails to anyone on the list

-to make its roots untracable it takes any name from the list and

uses it as 'original sender' (clever huh?)

 

Solution:

-get a fresh virus scanner and check your system for trojan

horses/virus

-send a polite email to everyone on your addresslist that they should

check their system because someone abused their Outlook to spread a

virus (put this in diplomatic words)

 

This kind of virus keeps on living because it is hard to explain how

it functions.

I hope I could put some light into this.

Greetings Tay.