Re: email virus ==> over the top

[neal rauhauser <neal () lists rauhauser net>]

  I prefer to think of it as having evolved to a higher plane of
existence :-)



Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:10:12 CDT, neal rauhauser <neal () lists rauhauser net>  said:
>
> >   No one loves me and I don't get much email from the folks who tolerate
> > me. I just got back from having lunch with some guys who tolerate me and
> > I found scads of messages from all over -the funniest among the bunch
> > for our Nanog readers:
> >
> > <user>@cisco.com
> > <user>@tacnet.com
> > <user>@wcom.com
> > <user>@sprint.com
>
> >   Looks like my internetwork equipment vendor and my two favorite peers
> > have their Windoze stuff in a complete state of 'higgledy piggledy' - a
>
> No, it looks like some poor schmuck who happened to have those e-mail
> addresses somewhere on the disk has their windows system in trouble.
>
> W32/SoBig-F is known to forge the From: field.  Which explains why I've gotten
> at least 103 "you sent us a virus" postings regarding my Linux laptop.. ;)
>
> Which of course just goes to show that people can be "behind the knowledge curve"
> no matter *what* operating system they happen to be using.
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