Yes, definitely. I get "Your mail has been rejected because of X virus" messages many times a day. Some of the From addresses are clearly semi-random names prepended to my domain ('bob @ granroth.org', 'joe @ granroth.org', etc). The rest use real addresses that I've had put on webpages at one time or another (mostly granroth@kde.org which is spread on many a webpage and list archive online). On Nov 3, 2004, at 1:48 PM, Vaughn Treude wrote: > Since somebody else brought this up... > A colleague of mine replied to an email that supposedly came with me, > containing the virus in question. He figured one of my systems had > the virus > and sent it to his. But a virus check revealed that none of my Windoze > systems had it, and I don't expect the Linux machines could become > infected > with an MS virus. Couldn't the "From" field have been faked? I read > something on the AVG anti-virus web page to that effect. > > Vaughn > > > On Wednesday 03 November 2004 12:18, you wrote: >> Posting a windows virus to a linux list. Duh. >> >> -- >> In 08 vote for a crook you can trust. >> Del Boy for President. >> http://www.ofah.net >> >> On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, JD Austin wrote: >>> George wrote: >>>> :)) >>> >>> Price.com contains Virus I-Worm/Bagle.AZ >>> >>> -- >>> JD Austin >>> Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC >>> email: jd@twingeckos.com >>> http://www.twingeckos.com >>> phone/fax: 480.344.2640 >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss