[Sca-cooks] Check your machines everyone!

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach 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.

Hmmm. I believe it's harder to fake an IP address (although not 
impossible) than an address. A full header generally shows that.

Adamantius (rec'd one .pif so far... what the h*** is a .pif???)

>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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