Re: Spam - Snow white

["Michael McDonald" <michael.and.colleen.mcdonald@xtra.co.nz>]

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Contrary to what you have said, a virus/worm is most likely to come from
someone you know, as the email address comes from the transmitter's address
book.  The exception to this is where transmitter and receiver are part of a
large organisation (thus very large address book).  I've had many cases of
the latter on my work computer very recently, and the only viruses I have
received on my personal computer have come from firends.

Cheers
Michael 2

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael" <usenet.spam@gunzel.net>
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: Spam - Snow white


> morb_@_bit_._net_._au (Brendan Morley) wrote in
> <nMAb6.13$Fw.627752@news.interact.net.au>:
>
> >a) People have to run the enclosed attachment for the Hybris worm to
> >infect their local system.
>
> Add to that, the fact that the attachment comes from a source that the
> recipient doesn't know. To be loading an executable file from someone you
> don't know, you'd have to be pretty silly.