Lee, how do we go about digitally signing mail and does it work through our group mail now? I remember it doing "things" to the program when Bill signed digitally and did not turn it off first posting to the group? Marta On Nov 9, 2004, at 13:01, 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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1231 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20041109/a97dc1d4/attachment.bin
