Re: VIRUS SPREAD BY MSN DOMAIN??

From: Veronica Loell (lista-nospam_at_nakawe.se)
Date: 10/28/03 

Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:15:43 +0100

Sir_George wrote / skrev:

> MaryAnn,
>
> If you had taken the time and read the post prior to yours from Karl
> Levinson with the subject "Read This Before Posting" you would have found
> the following;
>
> "FYI, it is extremely easy for someone to forge the sender's email address
> on an email, making the email appear as if it came from Microsoft or anyone
> else. Due to the way internet email works, there is probably nothing that
> you or Microsoft can or should do to stop this from happening or to
> determine the source of this email. Microsoft has already been aware of
> this issue for some time."
>

Also worth noting is that Microsoft uses the non-PGP-way of signing
their authentic messages.

What you could do as an email-reciever is to compare the originating IP
with the domain-name. This will of course only work if the sender is
large enough to host their own permanent IP and this corresponds with
the email-domain. Due to this fact it is quite pointless to try to do
this. Better would be to incorporate PGP-signatures. Unfortunately the
tools to use are still a little diffcult for many endusers, but there
are Open Source tools, and efforts are made both in translation and in
usability of theese tools.

- Veronica Loell

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