[sdiy] Interesting Email from Jameco -- virus alert

[Harry Bissell Jr]

WOW Tom...

whitehouse.gov is a porno site. Is that YOUR
site. WOW. I mean, that would make you like
a celebrity or something.

not that I've ever gone there (except maybe by
accident) when I wanted to send some porno to
George Dubya... oops   :^P


H^) harry  (blonde moce off)


--- Tom May <tom at tommay.net> wrote:
> Glen <mclilith at charter.net> writes:
> 
> > At 09:16 AM 8/20/03 , Hermann Seib wrote:
> >
> > >This neat virus can fake sender addresses, so
> there's no way to tell (unless
> > >you follow the IP addresses) whether it really
> came from Jameco.
> >
> > I usually check the "Received:" header for an IP
> address. Is that header
> > forge-proof, or nearly so?
> 
> The received headers are added as the message goes
> through each system
> that handles it.  So the recent ones are real, but
> the oldest ones may
> be forged.  For example, this message should say it
> originated from
> whitehouse.gov.
> 
> Tom.