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Originally posted by Digipimp
If your email is being used it's because as some point you did open one of those attachments and you are partially responsible for all this bullshit.
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unfortunately not true. the viruses out there scan your entire drive. I think an early version of sobig in fact. I can't say if variants are still doing it, but I don't see why they'd cut out features...
basically, your address book, your local files, and your internet cache are all searched looking for email addresses. then the virus starts sending shit to and from random email addresses.
I've had a few bounces and I've never ever opened any of these. how do I know? I have a mac, not some cheap arse PC running LookOut.
even if I tried to open a virus, it wouldn't run.
in fact, I've only received these at work, not to my home addresses, which is kind of nice. Because I hate people, and they hate me, I'm not on many address books.