It picked your name/e-mail address out of someone else's address book! That
person (who has been infected with the virus) had your name in their book
and the virus not only will send TO people in the infected address book, but
also 'spoof' those addresses to send to others.

Randy Heise
Information Systems Manager
The High Desert Museum
59800 South Highway 97
Bend, OR  97702-7963
(541) 382-4754 Ext. 244
(541) 382-5256 Facsimile
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www.highdesertmuseum.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Jill Lasker [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 11:35 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: On viruses/attachments on museum-l


I just got the message pasted below and now I'm a bit confused.
1--I'm on a Mac so my machine (supposedly) cannot be infected
2--I've opened NO attachments
3--I sent nothing out with an attachment in recent days and certainly not to
this person
4--Is [log in to unmask] someone on this list? Because it's not someone in
my address book
5--I've updated my Virex definitions this week!

Given the above, how would it have accessed my address book? or forged my
name? Any idea?

> Sender Note - Inbound Virus Found
>
> Attention: Virus detection software has found a virus infected message
> from:  <[log in to unmask]>  recently routed  to our location.  The
> message was dropped and will not be delivered.  To  help facilitate
> delivery of your messages  to our location please take necessary steps
> to clean the virus and then resend the message.  For details on this
> infected e-mail see the attached message headers and virus message
> information.
> Virus Scanner found the
> W32/Sobig.f@MM virus
> in the attached file: your_document.pif

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Jill Lasker
Writer/Editor/Researcher
Medicine/Bioscience/History
http://home.earthlink.net/~laskerj/

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