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Date:	Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:23:00 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Forum notify

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
> >I'm not convinced it's a virus on someone's machine
>
> If it's not a virus, then why does the message body contain a virus?

Well, that's a good point.

> >nobody on the SCOUG lists is based in Mexico
>
> It's very typical for these types of attacks to collect address
> books from the captured machines. The address book that provided
> the from and to addresses could have come from anywhere.

Okay, I didn't know this. I guess I should have spent more time
learning how to be a virus writer.

- Peter

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