Posted by  George Birbilis on May 11, 2004 at 08:07:34:

plus some of those viruses scan all disk documents to find ...@... and
consider them as e-mail addresses they then use in the "From" field

we definitely need new or revised e-mail protocols

> >Just to say the last e-mail was definitely not from me, my machine was
> >not even connected to the internet at 11:46. There are very few if any
> >Mac viruses about at the moment, and if there are any the don't use
> >E.S.P.
>
> With most of these ones the From address is forged - so it's probably
> someone who has you in their address book (or someone who knows someone
> who knows you, etc) who actually has it. :-(

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