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Subject: Re: Impostors of the most serious kind.
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Hello, Bob!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Dial" 
To: 
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: Impostors of the most serious kind.


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wayne Young" 
> To: 
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 12:20 AM
> Subject: Impostors of the most serious kind.
>
>
> HI, Wayne
>
> >
> > Sometime ago there was a hot debate on this echo about impostors using
> > someone else name to send e-mails.
>
> That is the result of invasive hacker programs which read and mail to
> persons in the address books of the computers they are able to illegally
> access.  Of late, some of these programs select a single name from the
book
> and use it to appear as the name of the message orginator.  I'd think by
now
> that all experienced users would be aware the 'sender' of these bogus
> messages is not the person to whom they are intended to mis-represent.  In
> short, forget it.  So far the only way to be safe from such hackers is to
> use and regularly update a good virus protection system and, if on broad
> band to maintain a protective firewall to ferret out the worms as well as
> virus attacks.  

Good points Bob, I do have the latest McAffe, ZoneAlert, and  firewall.
What's lacking is probably a firehose...  :)

The serious problem was/is someone using my name to post highly sensitive
messages to public sites, not to persons who are on my address book.  I
travel widely (been to Mexico on cruise, and Sydney Australia this year) and
I would be really upset if I got shadowed on my next trip to SE Asia in Feb.

Perhaps I should look at the bring side, eh, having someone to watch over me
when I travel?  Maybe I should tell my secretary to watch for any shadows...

Wayne

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