Hello (cbbrowne)

[Peter L. Peres]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 02:33:49PM -0500, Peter L. Peres wrote:
>>
>> cbbrowne a virus is spamming the list pretending it's you. I got an
>> email purportedly from you with an attachment called price.cpl, size
>> 21935, md5sum 46bc5fb4b75f02aeb8e573bfa43a0b99 which is almost certainly a
>> virus. Find out what causes this soon.
>
> Most likely, an outlook user that is a member of this list and got one
> of the million (or billion) outlook viruses that mail itself to a random
> address in the mail folder from a random address in the mail folder.  It
> is almost never from who it appears to be from when it is a virus.

If it is not from whom it pretends to be then the list software should not 
let him post since he's not subscribed. Most likely his s.o.'s computer 
got infected and is sending as 'him'. The mailing list software 
obliterates his 'from' headers so I can't tell what sent it.

Peter
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