Re: Fake "bounced email" reply?
From: WB IT (abuse@127.0.0.1)Date: 09/27/02
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From: "WB IT" <abuse@127.0.0.1> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:34:41 +0100
"John Elsbury" <johne@snospam.sovereign.co.nz> wrote in message
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<snip>
> Quite a lot of spam contains scripts and web bugs which pass the
> addressee's e--mail address back to a website (presumably owned by the
> spammer) when it is opened or even previewed in OE. This, of course,
> confirms that the address is valid and adds value to it.
>
Also use a personal firewall to block OE from connecting out on any other
ports than the ones it needs (25, 110).
This will stop it phoning home with imbedded pictures etc.
And mailwasher is excellent :)
--Shaolin - IT Systems WB Ltd.
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