ON Monday, April 22, 2002, 11:49:25 PM, you wrote:
LL> Hi Gerard, LL> It did arrive and as you said it appears to be from LL> my own computer and with the attachment file showing LL> up. Scary. Can people do this, send stuff like this LL> out to other people and make it appear as though it LL> is from me? I am very cautious about opening LL> attachments, and I have my AVG antivirus set to LL> check and update my AVG if its over one day old. LL> I even run a firewall or did, until I upgraded to LL> WINXP, which has a built in firewall ( supposedly ) LL> at least I did choose to install one when I set up LL> this connection. It is good to know that my pc is LL> not infected. Thanks for the demonstration. But Oh LL> what a lesson... Lynna, There is nothing you can do about it. I only need your email address. The way to see that this is not send by you is check the headers, which is not something the average user will/can do. Firewalls have nothing to do with this and yes I guess everybody can do this and it is mostly done by spammers. -- Best regards, Gerard Insert Cookie Here--> See, when the GOVERNMENT spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the money is left in the hands of TAXPAYERS, God only knows what they do with it. Bake it into pies, probably. Anything to avoid creating jobs. -- Dave Barry Using The Bat! v1.60c on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________________ 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]
