[Ti] Off_Topic: Are there OSX viruses?

Mark C. Langston mark at bitshift.org
Wed May 19 15:30:27 PDT 2004


On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 06:19:49PM -0400, David DelMonte wrote:
> I've been curious about this for a while. I often get messages from 
> ISP's indicating that a message supposedly sent by me contained a 
> virus. I usually dont know the recipient. I was wondering whether:
> 
> a: I have been a virus carrier,
> 
> b: the messages from these ISPs are spoofs, or
> 
> c: my account is being spoofed.


C:  Your account is being spoofed.  More correctly, your email address
is being spoofed.

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Mark C. Langston                                    Sr. Unix SysAdmin
mark at bitshift.org                                       mark at seti.org
Systems & Network Admin                                SETI Institute
http://bitshift.org                               http://www.seti.org



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