Alin Flaider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's the BugBear. It uses the address books of infected computers to > harvest email addresses that's used both for sender and recipient.
It doesn't use just the address book. It also scans your web browser's cache and looks for "mailto" links on the HTML pages there. This really opens up possibilities for deception. > Using addresses for sender different than the one of the infected > account is intended to increase the confusion and reduce the chances > to trace the infected computer. Most likely it's not Paal that sent > you the virus. He just happened to be in somebody else's address > book. Yep. He's probably in a lot of people's address books. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
