Good words of advice Robert... and Andy also... thanks for both posts. I wonder if we shouldnt start an internet security awarness group on the list.... nothing to formal... just a series of threads and discussion about how we can protect ourselves better both from spam, ad and other spywares, and these ghostings and virus schemes. I just read doing some quick browsing that I could get around being traced (attn: Keith Roberts) if I knew how to scan for machines with open port 25, which I gather allows one to use the email server for the machine to relay emails. It would seem then that not only could you ghost the email address, but you could fake the smpt servers address as well. And of course... all that information is readily available on the full headers of emails... or we couldnt be traced to begin with. I dunno... I get more and more suspicious of the whole thing as time goes by. Thanks tho Andy... for the encouraging words RicB Robert Goodale wrote: > This sounds similar to the thing I had been discussing where the system is > resending old e-mails out of my sent file at random. On a related topic, a > couple nights ago Norton detected and quarantined a Trojan horse called "JS > Seeker." Apparently this one hitch-hikes into your system under a different > name and then unpacks itself inside Internet Explorer. It then tries to > alter various protocol settings. Norton detected it immediately. Watch for > this one, it's obviously on the move out there. > > Rob Goodale, RPT > Las Vegas, NV > > > These ghosted addresses being sent around with small notes that seem > > fairly topic relevant are beginning to get a bit spooky if you as me. > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html
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