David W. Fenton wrote: > On 21 May 2004 at 22:29, Javier Ruiz wrote: > > > Today I received a message from Randy Stokes. Not a > personal one, no, > > but one of those virus messages "Re: Your software" with an attached > > exe application disguised as another thing. > > > > The problem is serious when you see that even professionals got > > viruses and let them spread. > > > > I am glad I am on a Mac. > > There's no guarantee that Randy was the infected one. The way these > worms are engineered, the only thing you know is that the FROM: and > TO: addresses were available to the worm that sent it out. Any person > that had both of them in their addressbooks could have been the > source of the infected email message. > > Put another way, the FROM: address really does not mean anything at > all about the origin of the actual infected email. I get infection > notices and non-deliverable messages all the time for addresses that > I've never sent email to, and that did not originate from my PC (the > RECEIVED headers prove this).
A guy I know who owns his own domain has about 5 email address set up to be "@his-own-domain.com". [1] However, sometimes he gets spam and/or viruses with bogus "@his-own-domain.com" addresses in the From line! It's easy to fake the address shown in the "From" header, as this post shows. [1] Name changed to protect the innocent :) -- Brad Beyenhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
