Lee, or someone else in the know about digitally signed e-mail, If one uses the digital signature, will this keep the spoof from being sent or just notify the receiver that it was from you? Also ow would one know it was really from you and not just from someone else with a digital signature or photo that looks like -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/octet-stream Size: 2363 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20041109/4d22cadd/attachment.obj -------------- next part -------------- ?
Anne Cartwright On Tuesday, November 9, 2004, at 01:01 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > On Nov 9, 2004, at 12:05 PM, S. Blake smelled something: > >> Something fishy is going on here, but I don't know what. This >> "sender" copied my e-mail address. I have also gotten a bounce-back >> that I was supposed to have sent to someone in my address book-- but >> with the prefix 3D. > > You can probably thank one of your Windows-using friends for this. > There are several worms and viruses on Windows that search the > infected machine for e-mail addresses. When it finds your address, it > sends out an infected e-mail that looks like it came from you. > > There are also spammers who use this technique. > > This is why some of us champion digitally signed mail. If everyone > signed their mail, this type of spoofing would go away because we > could just throw away mail that wasn't signed. The spoofing program > cannot duplicate your signature.<smime.p7s>
