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Re: [LUG] OT: Harvesting address from Outlook

 

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Grant Sewell wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> In the soul-destroying battle that is moving people in the office to a
> Windows Server environment with Exchange, I have come up against
> another question...
>
> Outlook remembers the email addresses of people you have previously
> sent email to.  When you create a new email and start typing in the
> "To" field, it gives you a list of those addresses it knows about.
> These addresses do not have to be in the user's "address book".
>
> Is there either an application that can harvest these addresses, or a
> way to export them (so they can be imported again contacts)?

There are several viruses/trojans that harvest such information - e.g.

   http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/w32bofraa.html

so if they can do it, so can ligitimate software - somehow..

Gordon

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