E-mail warning

[Michael W Blackman]

NEVER NEVER open attatchments that are suss!!!!!!!!!



In a message dated Sat, 27 Apr 2002 09:16:40  AEDT, Chris Gibbs <chris at HAWKLORD.UKLINUX.NET> writes:

> Hi ya,
>
> I hope I am wasting my time telling you this ;-)
>
> I just recieved an e-mail (huge but little obvious content and no
> attachments).
>
> It claims to be a patch for Internet Explorer 6.0, somehow I doubt that
> is what it is!
>
> If you are stupid you might think it is from Microsoft, below is the
> e-mail header so maybe you can work out what mail server is at fault in
> sending this (big hint: I doubt there is anything wrong at uklinux.org,
> Lance, they guy in charge of e-mail, is pritty clued up).
>
> At moment I've got no spare processor so I'll try to figure what it
> actualy is latter.
>
> Another hint is that any mail server that allows you to claim your
> messages are originating from it rather than yours is stupid.    mail
> servers that block incoming mail but are sending you mail should be well
> avoided, that is the sort of server spammers like, its set up that way
> because otherwise the server will get flooded with return mail and you
> wont get your spam.  Unfortunately some such servers also have
> legitimate users (poor sods).
>
> Chris
>
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>                 From:
>                        jfarewel <jfarewel at win.org>
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>               Subject:
>                        A IE 6.0 patch
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> Hi,This is a IE 6.0 patch
> I hope you would like it.
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