Hi,

Just received an e-mail that looks suspiciously like a virus. Just a heads up to people. The e-mail sender was masqueraded as from "Empeg". Just a heads up!

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To: "Huet" <[email protected]>
From: "Empeg" <[email protected]>
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Unlikely to resurface really.

Someone must have created an empeg@ email address for the BBS or something where they didn't want to use their main email address. In turn they (or someone else with that address in their address book) is infected with a virus which merely pulls both the from and to addresses from the infected PCs address book.

You'll likely never see or hear of it again.

Right. Remember that viruses these days randomize their addresses (both sending and receiving) based upon random scans of ascii text on the infected user's hard disk. Someone had that address on their hard disk when they were infected with the virus. It doesn't even mean that an empeg user is infected, it means someone with that name someplace on their hard disk (including the web browser cache) got infected. You have no way of tracing the user based on that address, so it doesn't even do any good to reply to the email and say "you are infected" because that's not who sent it. So there's nothing useful you can do except delete the email and forget about it.