Re: possible system intruder XP


"Alun Jones" <alun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Marvel wrote:
"Alun Jones" <alun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Always seek the simplest explanation for what happened - in this
case, unless unique information from your hard drive was revealed in
this email, assume that this was just a random spam.

Alun, I agree with you... the reason I stated it in my was from my
hard drive is, instead of c: or h: or etc... my hard drive was named
Ralph (which I changed at once) Maybe they wanted me to know they
knew.

Uh... yeah.

Again, always seek the simple explanation. I have spam from Doug, Jim,
Dave, and a bunch of other people. I bet if I took a look, I'd find one
from Ralph, too.

If your hard drive was called "Zdephulon Beta 3", and you got an email
from that name, there might be a reason to be concerned.

Also it was from my roadrunner e-mail account (I use OE) to my work
account kinda odd instead of being from Marvel@roadrunner it was just
plain Ralph, and still it didn't contain any more than that.

Again, anyone can put anything in the "From" address. Anything. Anything
at all.

To make you open it, they try and guess names - names of people, like
"Ralph" - that might make you say "oh, this email is from Ralph".

Alun.
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Well, I am going to give it a unique name just to be safe as I follow the
advice contained herein


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