Hi Gerard, Monday, April 22, 2002, 1:38:55 PM, you wrote:
G> Hi Lynna, G> It is possible to send an email with your address in the From field G> with an attachment. I can do that and your machine has nothing to do G> with it. G> Some person using Outlook with your email address in his address book G> probably has send it to you. You will have to dissect the headers to G> see were it is from. You can stop worrying about being infected. G> To prove that it is possisble to sent such emails, I have sent such an G> email to you off-line with an attachment that is just 100% text. Let G> me know how it arrives. It did arrive and as you said it appears to be from my own computer and with the attachment file showing up. Scary. Can people do this, send stuff like this out to other people and make it appear as though it is from me? I am very cautious about opening attachments, and I have my AVG antivirus set to check and update my AVG if its over one day old. I even run a firewall or did, until I upgraded to WINXP, which has a built in firewall ( supposedly ) at least I did choose to install one when I set up this connection. It is good to know that my pc is not infected. Thanks for the demonstration. But Oh what a lesson... -- Regards, Lynna mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Using The Bat! v1.60c on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.60c FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
