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Possibly infected...
Hello friends!
If there is one of you with the address d.mcdermott@ gold.ac.uk he must know that he is infected. Address sounds a bell but I am not sure... -- http://www.romclub.4t.com/rabin.html E' mai possibile, oh porco di un cane, che le avventure in codesto reame debban risolversi tutte con grandi puttane! F.d.A |
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gogu wrote:
If there is one of you with the address ...snip... he must know that he is infected. Address sounds a bell but I am not sure... All modern viruses forge the From address. If you received an infected email with that address in the From line, all it means is that the infected person's machine had access to your address and the address you listed (which I removed since he's probably an innocent bystander). In the olden days, viruses harvested email addresses by looking in the address book, but nowadays they dig deeper - looking in the web and newgroup cache. So, all this means is that somebody who reads rec.collecting.coins got infected - and that could be almost anybody. A much better indicator is to look at the originating IP address, but that only gets you close. It's hard to tie it down to a specific person. I get a couple viruses per day directed to this email address - which I use only here, and only started using here a couple weeks ago. It's just one of the things you have to put up with these days when you use an email address in a public place. -- Jim Seymour |
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On Sat, Jim Seymour wrote:
gogu wrote: If there is one of you with the address ...snip... he must know that he is infected. Address sounds a bell but I am not sure... All modern viruses forge the From address. If you received an infected email with that address in the From line, all it means is that the infected person's machine had access to your address and the address you listed (which I removed since he's probably an innocent bystander). Some email worms do nothing but spoof, with only the receiving machine involved. Everybody should make sure their machine is clean, a free Microtrend housecall may help. I have the advantage of being able to do email without an email inbox or outbox or address book, with web mail and another way to use DOS to read email on my ISP server. But perhaps nothing is for sure. Joe Fischer |
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Joe Fischer wrote:
On Sat, Jim Seymour wrote: All modern viruses forge the From address. If you received an infected email with that address in the From line, all it means is that the infected person's machine had access to your address and the address you listed (which I removed since he's probably an innocent bystander). Some email worms do nothing but spoof, with only the receiving machine involved. Everybody should make sure their machine is clean, a free Microtrend housecall may help. And, of course, by "Microtrend", you mean "Trend Micro" :-) Free web-based virus scanner: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ -- Jim Seymour |
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? "Jim Seymour" ?????? ??? ??????
... gogu wrote: If there is one of you with the address ...snip... he must know that he is infected. Address sounds a bell but I am not sure... All modern viruses forge the From address. If you received an infected email with that address in the From line, all it means is that the infected person's machine had access to your address and the address you listed (which I removed since he's probably an innocent bystander). In the olden days, viruses harvested email addresses by looking in the address book, but nowadays they dig deeper - looking in the web and newgroup cache. So, all this means is that somebody who reads rec.collecting.coins got infected - and that could be almost anybody. A much better indicator is to look at the originating IP address, but that only gets you close. It's hard to tie it down to a specific person. I get a couple viruses per day directed to this email address - which I use only here, and only started using here a couple weeks ago. It's just one of the things you have to put up with these days when you use an email address in a public place. Thanks for the insight Jim! I thought it was someone having his computer infected by a virus and just wanted to worn him/her. I am behind two software firewalls and one hardware f.w, so I feel in relative safety but you never know ;-) -- http://www.romclub.4t.com/rabin.html E' mai possibile, oh porco di un cane, che le avventure in codesto reame debban risolversi tutte con grandi puttane! F.d.A -- Jim Seymour |
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