Re: Email i have not sent

From: Jim Watt (jimwatt_at_aol.no.way)
Date: 04/28/03


Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 12:17:09 +0200

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 07:49:17 GMT, "alan" <alan@alan.alan> wrote:

>
>"Jim Watt" <jimwatt@aol.no.way> wrote in message
>news:0ieoav8jr3389po29868bcgjk5u9qdu27t@4ax.com...
>> On Sun, 27 Apr 2003 11:16:20 GMT, "alan" <alan@alan.alan> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >"Rob" <r1_ffc@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> >news:b8gab8$dc8$1@sparta.btinternet.com...
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >This sounds like you're running a mail server on your machine
>>
>> No, its more likely someone else is doing it with
>> forged FROM headers The secret is to read the
>> headers and identify the source ISP..
>>
>
>Don't be so quick to dismiss a possibility simply because
>it wasn't you who thought of it.
>http://www.securityfocus.com/news/4217
>A

Given that he is running zonealarm and the email address
used is actually his rather than a forged one, it is more
probable the way I have described it.

Many things are possible, but what you suggest is
less likely. I regularly get accused of sending out
worms because of someone else and I am 100%
sure there is no mail server on my machine.

--
Jim Watt          http://www.gibnet.com


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