> I've wondered how one goes about spoofing the "from" address, since that's > such a common tactic for spam and other undesirable mail. My sister just got > an email with a virus the other day, and the return address claimed it was > from me. I haven't seen any way within AOL to monkey with the return address > - is this just an AOL restriction?
Aol does not show the whole email header. Usually the Sender: field has the actuall sender, but the virus plops in someone elses email address in the From: field. In most emails you can do this when you set up the email address for the account, since it is just a text field. The Sender field is the on put in by the email server that is difficult to spoof. Email servers that allow anonymous mail forwarding such as uunet used to use can be used to spam by telling the machine to forward a message with a bogus header. This is why most ISPs will now only accept mail when you are logged into their net Since you are using AOL mail most of the viruses won't be able to get to your address book to send itself to all your friends, but they can still attach to your files and try other ways to propagate. I recently saw this while looking about a virus for my sister I found something similar. It was attached to many files, but hadn't emailed out since it didn't understand AOL so it didn't send mail out. It was interesting to see all the new Linux viruses listed on McAffee though. There weren't as many as Win32, but there were a few of them. Robert D. LaMoreaux MTS Systems Corp. Powertrain technology Division 4622 Runway Blvd. Ann Arbor, MI 48108 734-822-9696 Fax 734-973-1103 Main Desk 734-973-1111 ************************************************************************ * Tracking #: B1FFF8AB3FB6C542AF98D592103DA37EEDB703C2 * ************************************************************************ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
