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Re: OT: suspicious emails

has it ever occurred to you guys that any mail in your inbox might be sent by a virus, and that any mail may have a fake sender address?
that includes virus warnings, you are infected messages from the virus scan program xyz, MS security bulletins, and even the occasional love letter :) all of them can and will be used by virus authors.

my only advice for unwanted mail is therefore: delete silently. social engineering is only going to get better. never take it personal :)

cheers,

nik

At 03:46 PM 3/27/2004 -0800, Scott Ellsworth wrote:
>On Mar 26, 2004, at 6:13 PM, Erik wrote:
>
>>Neanderthals and dim-wits unite!!! Join me! Help those that have become
>>infected with arrogance. They don't see it themselves, but those around
>>them do... This is an even more important virus/spam issue and sadly, it
>>does affect this list dramatically IMHO. Even more than this OT crap.
>
>Today, out of my spam harvest of 15 messages, five of them were some variant on "Your message contained the JS.Spam virus. Please scan your computer."
>
>Given that I am using a Mac, and this is a windows virus, I can be pretty sure that my computer is not the one with the virus. This advice, in fact, is harmful, as two of those five messages had the virus still attached!
>
>The author of this spam software _should_ be able to note whether this is a virus that fakes the sender. If it is, there is bloody little good that can come of sending me a message whose only real content is "you know someone with a virus". Attaching a copy of the virus is even less bright.
>
>Put another way, had the virus scan software that decided to talk with me just silently dumped the message, I would not have gotten five useless spam messages. When you KNOW that the email address in the header is definitely not the sender, why reply?

maybe they didn't?!
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