Re: somebody is stealing my name--sorry

[Bill London <london@moscow.com>]

Bill Moore of FSR sent me the message below regarding the likely cause of
that email that was listed incorrectly as sent by me to V2020.  Thanks for
the info, Bill....
Looks like someone is infected.  I do not think it is my computer, since I
have a daily virus scan.
BL

Bill Moore wrote:

> Bill & Dale,
>
> I won't copy V2020 on this, but feel free to forward it.  This is
> likely a manifestation of the newest virus, the so-called BugBear
> virus.  See http://www.mcafee.com/anti-virus/viruses/bugbear/ for
> more detail.  One of the many things this bug does, once it has
> infected a computer, is to read and store all the addresses from
> the victim's address book.  It then replicates itself and attaches
> itself to an email, addresses the email to an address from the
> address book, and signs the message as being "From:" someone else
> in the same address book.  I suppose the idea is that the return
> address is recognizable, stands a better chance of being opened,
> and thus replicated.  We first saw this behavior a while back in the
> SirCam virus.  BugBear is a lot worse tho.  This does not mean that
> Bill London has the virus.  It (usually) means that someone who has
> Bill's email address in their address book has the virus.
>
> Bill Moore
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill London [mailto:london@moscow.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 9:08 AM
> To: Dale Courtney; Vision2020
> Subject: somebody is stealing my name--sorry
>
> Dale, et al...
> I have no idea how this funky ad was listed as coming from my address.
> I didn't have anything to do with it.
> Sorry
> BL
>
> Dale Courtney wrote:
>
> > Bill,
> >
> > I didn't realize that Vision2020 was also designed to be an advertising
> > medium.
> >
> > Should we be promoting our wares here?
> >
> > Dale Courtney
> > Moscow, Idaho
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Webamster [mailto:ams@gasb34.us] On Behalf Of london@moscow.com
> > > Sent: Tuesday, 29 October, 2002 00:21
> > > To: vision2020@moscow.com
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