I can't quite make sense of this for the initial virus spreading at
least. I assume most people received, as I did, extracts of old
messages that they had sent to birding-aus and all of these came, or
appeared to come, from the one person.
How does this fit in with the unread message scenario and how could
any virus do this automatically? I can see how the virus can be
forwarded once the attachment is opened, but surely the first stage
must have been deliberate?
You have to realise that the virus has nothing to do with Birding-Aus, and
the people who sent out poisoned messages didn't do so deliberately, and
they aren't guilty of attaching anything either. The virus generates the
attachment - which is the virus itself.
You can't get the virus by reading ANY email. You will be infected
immediately if you try to open a poisoned attachment. The virus then doesn't
do anything till after your next reboot, when it searches through your Email
system for unread messages, and sends back part of the message to its sender
with the virus attached.
The posioned messages are not from Birding-Aus! They are from people whose
machines have already been infected. Just so happens that most people who
subscribe to Birding-Aus probably have lots of unread messages in their
system, and that's where the virus finds messages to send on.
Cheers, Chris.
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