Re: hacker??
From: N. Miller (nsm_at_blackhole.aosake.net)
Date: 11/06/03
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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 20:40:21 -0800
In article <084a01c3a41a$9c5cfab0$a301280a@phx.gbl>,
squirtlesmom@hotmail.com says...
> I want to give a great big hug to both of you. I searched
> and found the entries on 10/31 and did it. As problems
> go, this was not a huge one, but not knowing that much
> about computers I did not know if it would grow and
> besides that - it was really pissing me off. :)
Is 'squirtle' as 'kawaii' as his name sounds? Ah, never mind that. But,
unless you are inviting private contact by email, you might want to
reconsider using a real email address in posts to this group. Although you
find it by HTTP service, many of us get her by NNTP service. The groups are
carried publicly on a slough of NNTP servers, and harvested regularly for
"fresh, new" email addresses by spammers, not to mention that nasty Swen
bug!
I haven't tested the Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000 interface, lately, so I
don't know if you can execute a "Reply" and get my working address. But I
use a bad posting address. I used to use <koko@soko.invalid>, but the new
one actually points to a loopback address, so a badly configure SMTP engine
will try to eat the mail itself, as it tries to find me!
You can form such a "spam-and-virus-proof" address by using the .invalid TLD
for any logical looking address, or using "example.com" as your domain name.
Both are reserved as non-working names for live testing on the Internet; and
work very well to block such nastiness. Microsoft is supposed to be
preloading <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>, which is not configured as
a hostname on the Internet. Not as nasty as <*@blackhole.aosake.net> because
it doesn't have an MX record configured to loopback; but any of those
example domains will cause the malicious SMTP delivery to fail.
But the address you used will probably now become a Swen-and-Spam magnet.
-- Norman ~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta ~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain ~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint
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