returned email

Ron ronb at cogeco.ca
Tue Dec 30 14:44:14 EST 2003


On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 12:37, Robert Meyer wrote:
> You're getting bounces from a spammer that is forging his headers.  This is one
> of the most reprehensible tactics of the spammers.  The spammer has stuffed
> your address into the 'reply-to' and 'from' headers of the mail messages he's
> sending  out.  You get the bounce 'cuz he doesn't want to deal with all of the
> hate mail.

I followed the link in Paul's response and the "w32.klez.gen at mm" virus
appears to be MS specific, my machine is strictly Linux...

So it is likely what Robert says, it fits what I didn't know but
assumed.

Thank you
-- 
Ron
ronb at cogeco.ca




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