Re: [PCTECH] Email ghosting

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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