The latest viruses go through the Outlook address book, choosing random
addresses for both the From: and To:, and often previous subject lines.
See http://office.microsoft.com/Downloads/2000/Out2ksec.aspx for MS
security measures.
Or switch to freeware Pegasus mail - http://www.pmail.com
Tom
On Thursday, October 10, 2002 at 10:54, john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "Re: [OM] Possible Virus?" saying:
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 23:12:27 EDT, Doggre@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >I just received an email with the following header info. The subject was "
> >OM2n_Skip_To_JohnH.rtf.scr". Yeah, two file extensions. Seems to be a
> >hijack of a legitimate email. Smells like a virus to me. Can anyone shed
> >any light on this? Here's the header/origin info.:
>
> Yes it is. My Norton AV pounced on it as was being received.
>
> Thankfully, I don't use Outlook as my mail client!
>
>
>
> John Gruffydd (Mold, Wales, UK)
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