Re: Stolen email

From: Jay Calvert (jcalvert_at_nospam.com)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:44:28 GMT

Actually using your email address as the sender is one of the ways that
spammers try to get through spam filters into your inbox. It is believed
that you might have allowed email from yourself to be whitelisted. 

--
Jay Calvert
http://habaneronetworks.com
"Rocky" <yr@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
news:mhRfd.16335$Mc.15853@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
> Hi.  I occasionally get emails with my email address as the sender. These
> are spam, and I realize they're spoofing my email, is this just because
> someone gathered my email somewhere and using it to send spam, or is there
a
> security hole in my system somewhere?  I am fully updated and run a
updated
> firewall and virus program.  I'm very security conscious about opening
email
> attachments running unknown programs.
>     Thanks, any info would be appreciated
>
>
>
>

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