Terry Sambrooks wrote: > Hi, > > This is off topic, but I keep getting e-mails from a lynn at garlic.com, and > wondered if this was the same Anne and Lynn Wheeler. > > If it is, please not that the only part of the e-mail I am receiving is from > my ISP telling me that a virus has been deleted. > > I apologies for using the list in this way but could not think of another way > to reply, as I did not wish to respond to the e-mail in error in case it was > spoofed. > > Kind regards - Terry
since i don't have your email address (ibm-main mailing list mangles it) ... it is probably somebody impersonating "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (that possibly has harvested your email address from somewhere else) sending to you. i thot ibm-main would have had a virus stripper (if somebody was trying to impersonate to the mailing list with attached virus). my email address shows in the clear in usenet newsgroup postings (but not in ibm-main mailing list stuff) ... and is readily available from numerous web pages. viewing the complete headers on the mail may give you some idea of where the email originates. some number of email impersonations will dummy up the originating "Received: header information (many don't bother since most poeple never look) ... but typically the next "Received:" header is some ISP ... which will give both its "name" and ip-address ... as well as the "ip-address" of where it got the email from. of course, it is possible for impersonation to dummy up some sequence of "Received:" headers ... but eventually the email should get to some ISP where the "Received:" header information can be reasonably trusted. Its not totally impossible that a (zombie) virus email could originate from this machine ... but highly unlikely (I know of no reported instances of email zombie/virus for this particular machine's configuration). at times in the past, i've had episodes where i've gotten tens of thousands email bounce messages ... somebody impersonating "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" using (purchased?) mailing list that possibly involved hundreds of thousands of names (that happened to contain tens of thousands invalid email addresses). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
