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From: "WAYNE_B_YOUNG@HOTMAIL.COM"
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 03 21:46:28 +0100
Subject: Re: Impostors of the most serious kind.
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From: "Wayne Young"
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Subject: Re: Impostors of the most serious kind.
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 21:46:28 -0800
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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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