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  3. July 2004

Re: Email ghosting

Saunders, Robin wrote: 
I have just had a strange experience, as I've just received 2 emails, 1st
from my hotmail to my yahoo account and 2nd from my yahoo to the same yahoo
account. Unfortunately, I never sent these emails, so how does this
happened. The message sent from my yahoo account was sitting in my sent box.
Both emails looked auto generated with .cpl attachments
Do people need my yahoo password to do this?

It's quite standard these days for worm viruses to send mail using spoofed email addresses.

The .cpl attachment is simply the virus trying to replicate itself.

Check out http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/email_spoofing.html for more information.

david

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