-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 More-or-less solution in your case - to prevent someone from forging your address in the future (by virus or by a targeted action of your rivals) - is to use PGP/GPG/other brand of digital signature. Create youself a key with one of the systems and advertise to all your clients by both e-mail and the site that you'll always send signed messages and that a message from you without a signature should be considered a forge and as such ignored.
Regards, Andre. On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Eli Marmor wrote: EM> Eliran wrote: EM> EM> > Hmm, I don't know about the viruses but the spoofed From: field... AFAIK EM> > try to look at the headers check the IP, find its ISP and give EM> > them a call/mail..... EM> EM> No, it is not the solution, and because more than one reason. EM> EM> First of all, let's say that 1 of 10 people that receive viruses with EM> my "name" as the sender, sends a reply to me. Even in that cases, the EM> e-mails are sent without the headers. But in any case, I can't know the EM> "Received:" headers of at least 90% of the messages. So there are EM> thousands of people that are sure that I sent them a virus, and will EM> never talk with me again, of course not respond to the message/virus, EM> but only curse me in their heart. I'll never know that they think so EM> about me, even if one day I'll try to sell them something, and they EM> will have a story why they don't need it, while the real reason is that EM> "I'll never buy anything from a person who infected my disk and damaged EM> all my critical data!". EM> EM> And even with the rest 10%, it's impossible to contact the ISP's, EM> because there is no specific ISP, but all of the world ISP's. EM> EM> It's very nice of the subscribers of this list that everybody EM> volunteers to help or find solutions for this problem, from using EM> amAVis, to checking the headers. But the sad truth is that there is no EM> solution. Maybe except for publishing ads in all the leading newspapers EM> in the world, telling everybody: "The viruses that you've received from EM> us were sent to you from friends of you, not from us"... EM> EM> - -- ========================================================== # Andre E. Bar'yudin # # Phone: (972)-54-882-026 ICQ: 48036924 # # E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Home page: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~baryudin/ # ========================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key at http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~baryudin/pgp_key.pub iD8DBQE8xEDaSX+Ex8ox84kRApTbAJ9HUKT8XcBfyaPCS322y4fLBSFkbgCfXIzy 5VvJUoyim4y3s90MzVETDqI= =XWy5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
