It wasn’t me!
Monday April 19, 2004 – 3:35 amWow, some wormy PC using Charter as the ISP just sent me a copy of the Netsky worm, using MY name and e-mail address in the From: field. I wonder if this was just for my amusement (I’m on a Mac so it can’t infect me…) or if anybody else I know got a copy? The last time this happened (that I know of) was a few years ago with the Klez virus. If you’re not familiar with how these evil things work, they choose a random address and make their virus-laden messages appear to come from someone else. In this case that someone else is me, and if anyone else got a copy of that, I’m very sorry but it had nothing to do with me or any machine of mine. It came from somebody at Charter so if you wanna complain, tell them.
April 19th, 2004 at 6:39 pm
I LUV when I spam myself with my own email address for viagra and that long wekend ahead-htlidp.
Speaking of spam, I should proll update Blacklist. Been awhile and some newbies are slippin in.
April 20th, 2004 at 7:53 pm
there’s a really efficient virus going around that infiltrates people’s inboxes and then sends infected messages out. the clever bit is that it swaps the ‘to’ and ‘from’ fields round making it look like you’re the one sending on the virus.
April 20th, 2004 at 11:45 pm
That’s freaky but I hope it means nobody else got one with my name on it. I did get a bounce message yesterday for a wormy e-mail I didn’t send, but it was talking about a different IP# and subject line than the one on the mail I got, so I guess it was unrelated. I haven’t heard from any human beings so whatever!