[Sca-cooks] Check your machines everyone!

[Rovena]

My husband once got a pornographic spam and the address said it came 
from him.  If  they can make it look like you spammed yourself then you 
can't easily tell  it really can from.

Rovena



lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:

> If anyone gets one of these annoying things that says it's from me, it 
> isn't. It would have gotten my address from someone's address book.
>
> These things take advantage of holes in those various and 
> unfortunately ubiquitous MS products and I don't use a MicroSoft 
> operating system, and i don't use Explorer or any from of Outlook. So 
> i'm safe from these.
>
> I must have gotten at least 2 dozen of them today (well, really 
> yesterday). I don't open the messages - i immediately toss the 
> attachments in my trash and empty my trash, and delete the messages.
>
> Heck, I got a message today (well, really yesterday) from 
> <lilinah at earthlink.net> with one of those annoying .pif's. I *know* 
> the virus didn't send itself from my machine to me.
>
> You can't believe what the simple headers say. However, sometimes you 
> can see where it came from if you look at the complete headers.
>
> Anahita
> well, it's getting late, errr, early. I better go to sleep.
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