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Sender address forgery by e-mail viruses (was: RE: Word file)

2004-03-03 04:48:19
Aurea Pang wrote:
DO I know u wtf is this?

From: julian(_at_)mehnle(_dot_)net
To: eqissocoo(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: Word file
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 10:09:47 +0100

Here is the file.
<< document_word.pif >>

Some e-mail virus on some person's machine duplicated itself and sent a
message to you, forging the "From" address to be *my* address.  I am not
responsible for that message.

You could help preventing this kind of address forgery by urging your
e-mail provider, hotmail.com, to employ an anti-address-forgery technology
like SPF[1].  This protects a growing number of addresses, like mine, from
being forged.  Many e-mail viruses can be stopped that way.

[1] http://spf.pobox.com


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