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bounces you never sent.
>Speaking of which, in the last couple days I've been getting > delivery failure notifications on mail I've never sent that's the Klez virus. If someone is infected with the Klez virus, when it decides to propogate, it chooses two addresses from that person's address book at random, uses one for the To, one for the From. So the virus seems to come from someone totally unrelated to the actual infected machine. I'm constantly having mailing lists I run 'sending' Klez viruses to other mailing lists. It's really annoying. It's a simple but nasty hack this latest virus came up with that's driving all sorts of things crazy and makes finding the infected machines more difficult ot track down and blow up... All you have in common with those bounce messages is that you and the address that bounced both exist in some third person's address book. And given that modern e-mail clients cache addresses they see temporarily, it could simply be someone who saw mail from you that you posted to some mail list somewhere. not even someone you've ever directly talked to... ain't this fun? chuq (founder, "kneecapping is too good for virus writing dweebs" association)
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