It is very easy to spoof an email address and I guess that if you email a message to the group ([email protected]) it would look like it has come from the moderators.
On Oct 16, 11:25 pm, John J Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe, but note that the first was two days ago under honza's account > and the third time was today under mine. So the same spy ware would > have to have gotten on to two machines in different countries. > > jjb > > On Oct 16, 12:15 pm, Mike Ratcliffe <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Probably spyware ... I would scan your computer if I was you. > > > -Mike Ratcliffe > > > On Oct 16, 7:39 pm, John J Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Recently a couple of spam posts to this newsgroup were created with > > > the email address of one of the moderators. The name of the poster was > > > no our email, but other name. > > > > Any one have an idea on how this can happen and how to prevent it? > > > (posting the google groups help gives no result). > > > > I changed my password, but I don't know if this is involved or not. > > > > jjb --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
