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Article: 13371 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Path: newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu!news.columbia.edu!news-not-for-mail
From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Recent e-mail viruses
Date: 17 May 2002 10:14:27 -0400
Organization: Columbia University
Lines: 18
Message-ID: <ac3383$nb0$1@watsol.cc.columbia.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: watsol.cc.columbia.edu
X-Trace: newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu 1021644868 4037 128.59.39.139 (17 May 2002 14:14:28 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: postmaster@columbia.edu
NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 May 2002 14:14:28 GMT
Xref: newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu comp.protocols.kermit.misc:13371
It should not be necessary to say this, but for the record... Any email
received from a Kermit-related address that contains viruses, spam, or
pornography is forged. The latest round of email viruses copies the
From: address from messages it finds in the infected user's mailbox, and
this is a source of much of the forged mail in current circulation. In
any case, it is ridiculously easy for spammers and hackers to "customize"
the From: address on their messages so you can expect ever-increasing
amounts of forged mail, to the point where it will be so hard to sift out
the real messages that many people won't bother.
But for what it's worth, you will never get infected email from us because
we use only Unix-based text-mode email clients, and send only plain-text
messages with no enclosures or attachments, as described here:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/safe.html
- Frank