[plug] W32.Novarg.A at mm

senectus senectuskal at hotmail.com
Tue Jan 27 15:25:52 WST 2004


I find this very unlikely.. as I use the German word for "testing" it
doesn't even come close to resembling and English word..

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-admin at plug.linux.org.au [mailto:plug-admin at plug.linux.org.au] On
Behalf Of Leon Brooks
Sent: Tuesday, 27 January 2004 2:56 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] W32.Novarg.A at mm

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:31, senectus wrote:
> Three days ago I created a new e-mail account at westnet. I haven't
> used this account to send or receive any e-mails and I haven't told
> anyone about it.. but somehow I have received the virus in that
> account.

Apparently the worm splices existing email addresses to get a 
reasonable-looking but fake sender address. Your address may have been 
spliced from the same username elsewhere crossed with one of westnet's 
domains.

Cheers; Leon

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