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From: "BOB.DIAL@GTE.NET" 
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 03 12:19:18 +0100
Subject: Re: Impostors of the most serious kind.
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Subject: Re: Impostors of the most serious kind.
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:19:18 -0600
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne Young" 
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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.  

Relax, and continue posting!

Bob Dial

>
> I just found out that my name too have been used to make representations
of
> a serious nature! How can one defend these type of malicious enterprise??
>
> Please be advised that if you received such mail or saw such mail, the
> author of that was NOT me.
>
> Further, please advise me if you encountered such malicious mail.
>
> Thanks,
> Wayne
>
>
>
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