I think it's because the e-mail it didn't come through Technet but directly
from Mr Tong. I have my e-mail program setup to siphon off all Technet mail
into a separate folder, then read it when I have time. The virus containing
e-mail was not in my Technet inbox but my regular one, as if the sender was
replying off-line. The subject line was also different which means we
received different e-mails not copies of the same one.
I know I've noticed a change recently when replying to Technet postings. It
used to be that when you replied the address line would include both Technet
and the original sender. That's no longer the case. Now only Technet shows
up. While this is a little inconvenient if you wanted to do an off-line
reply (all you had to do was delete the technet address) I suspect this
change was made for exactly this reason. I'm willing to bet that those of
us who received the virus posted to Technet on the relevant topic prior to
the change. That's the only way I can see for the insidious Mr. Tong (man,
is that a name out of a James Bond movie or what) to get all of our e-mail
addresses.
Maybe Keach can enlighten us?
> ----------
> From: Kasprzak, Bill (sys) USX[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To: TechNet E-Mail Forum.
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 11:42 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [TN] virus
>
> Hello all,
>
> I cannot believe that this sort of thing got sent to me through the IPC.
> So,
> my question is, how and why this happened?
>
> If these kind of things cannot be filtered out, then membership to any IPC
> email forum might be a bad idea.
>
> So, what's the story?
>
> Bill Kasprzak
> Moog Inc.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephen Gregory [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 9:12 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [TN] virus
> >
> > I got it too, the subject was Re: Re: [TN] Lead Free Soldering
> >
> > This is the W32/Badtrans@MM virus, VERY nasty virus!!
> >
> > Once running, the trojan attempts to mail the victim's IP Address to the
> > author. Once this information is obtained, the author can connect to the
> > infected system via the Internet and steal personal information such as
> > usernames, and passwords. In addition, the trojan also contains a
> > keylogger program which is capable of capturing other vital information
> > such as credit card and bank account numbers and passwords.
> >
> > -Steve Gregory-
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > The subject of this mail is different for each individual thatīs
> > getting
> > mail from this friendly MR.TONG. Seems that it knows about the
> > individual
> > subjects one has used for this forum.
> >
> > Wolfgang
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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