Thinking about these forged headers ... First I got worms from friends, relatives, and acquaintences sufficiently clueless/careless to let their machines get infected. Then came the worms that sifted the web cache as well as the addressbook, and I started getting virus mail from strangers. Then came the ones that forged the sender, so I was getting worms with return addresses of people two links away from me even after considering everyone who has ever looked at one of my web pages, and bounce messages claiming to be from me to people I'd never heard of two degrees away.
Now I'm getting way too many of these things for the percentage of clueless or careless among the folks close to me would account for, so I'm guessing that my email address is in the mailboxes of machines God knows how many degrees from me, having been spread to those machines by previous worms.
Of course, once they've sent me a worm, they're only one degree of contact away.
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Now I'm getting way too many of these things for the percentage of clueless or careless among the folks close to me would account for, so I'm guessing that my email address is in the mailboxes of machines God knows how many degrees from me, having been spread to those machines by previous worms.
Of course, once they've sent me a worm, they're only one degree of contact away.
Malware: bringing the net closer together.