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

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

>Actually, I think that perhaps Deb's e-mail
>carrier could be the problem.  I have received
>quite a few virus laden messages spoofing both
>Cindy's and Dr. Gloning's addresses.  When I look
>at the full headers it indicates that they
>
>Huette

Nowadays, in many virus mails, the actual sender is not really 
indicated by the address, even the complete address, although in the 
past you could sometimes tell where it came from.

I've gotten virus mails from "myself", from an address that i do not 
have in my address book and that i haven't used for about 5 years and 
which ISP has been out of business for almost that long (and yes, i'm 
looking at the complete long headers, not just the short simple 
headers one usually sees in e-mail). So i know that the virus mail 
spoofers have gotten more clever.

Chances are good it's is using Deb's address from someone's address 
book and it isn't her ISP who is culpable.

Anahita
who doesn't even use M$ OS, browser, or e-mail.