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Date:	Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:26:48 PST8
From:	"Bob" <2lvvuss02@sneakemail.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: eBook.pdf

** Reply to message from "Steven Levine steve53@earthlink.net" on Fri, 17 Feb
2006 09:13:17 PST8

> I'm still trying to see if I can figure out how the poster managed to
> guess Rocky's e-mail address and match it up with the mailing list. The
> address used is not Rocky's primary posting address. It sort of implies
> that some machine with both addresses in its address book got trojan'ed.

There are a number of ways the address may have been found. Most viruses and
trojans look at email clients address books (could be someone that receives the
list) and browser cache (someone has looked at the web site recently) to find
email addresses. Then send to all addresses found using some email address
(randomly selected form the list) as the FROM. So usually the message sent to
a mailing list would bounce because the FROM was not a subscriber but if the
correct email address is selected by accident it goes to the list.

--
Robert Blair

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