[Sca-cooks] OT/OOP Email viruses (was Re: OT: Cindy Renfrew, please)

[Avraham haRofeh]

>> HI. No, they weren't from me. FWIW, I've been bombarded by dozens of
>> spam messages with attachments from Deb Hense. And yes, as Moderator
>> I've been getting loads of bounced messages being sent to the FMP from
>> spammers. I trust you haven't been receiving them?
>
> I'm sorry you're getting spam reportedly from me.  I know that my
> personal machine at home has been offline since the beginning of the
> summer when lighting got the modem.  I haven't gotten around to replacing
> it yet since I can use the machine at work.
>
> My address may have been hijacked.  My machine here at work is clean - we
> run heavy duty scubbers on it.  Updated twice a day.

Most modern email viruses are "spoofers". When someone gets infected, it 
uses his/her address book as the source to generate its phony origin line. 
Deb is (obviously) not responsible for the virus-laden emails Cindy's 
getting; someone who had Deb in his/her address book is the infected 
machine, and you will really not be able to figure out who.

As a general rule in the modern age of virus writing, the person purportedly 
sending the bad email probably didn't.

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Reb Avraham haRofeh
     (mka Randy Goldberg MD)
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