1521  email from my address

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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 09:38:10 -0500
From: Shayna Lee <shayna.lee@SHAW.CA>
Subject: email from my address

For your information, the recent post re men, women and tango that came from
my address was not sent by me, nor was it sent from my computer.

Shayna Lee




Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 09:42:44 -0500
From: Shayna Lee <shayna.lee@SHAW.CA>
Subject: Fw: email from my address

This email was sent from quicksilver.net.nz, if anyone has any knowledge
about these kinds of things.

Shayna Lee

----- Original Message -----



Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 9:38 AM
Subject: email from my address


> For your information, the recent post re men, women and tango that came

from

> my address was not sent by me, nor was it sent from my computer.
>
> Shayna Lee
>




Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:31:52 +0100
From: Bruce Stephens <bruce@CENDERIS.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Fw: email from my address

Shayna Lee <shayna.lee@SHAW.CA> writes:

> This email was sent from quicksilver.net.nz, if anyone has any
> knowledge about these kinds of things.

It appeared to come from quicksilver.net.nz, but I don't think it did.
This worm (there's information about it here, including instructions
(and a free program) for disinfection:
<https://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32bugbeara.html>) forges
the From address (something which is very easy to do in email).

However, there's still genuine information in the email headers, if
you look carefully enough. I'm fairly confident I know whose PC is
sending out the emails that I've seen (no guarantees they're the only
ones, but this covers the recent ones that seem to be tango-list
related, I think). There's no point in my saying who it is (they
aren't responsible in any way, and there's no point in blocking email
from them, since if it looks like it's from them, then it's probably
genuine email, not the worm), but I've contacted them, and with luck
they'll be able to find someone able to fix things.


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