Forum Archive Index - October 2002

["tennyson@caverock.net.nz" <tennyson@caverock.net.nz>]

Hi davida,

>
>
>I am the person davida and yes I have had a virus that I was unaware
>of until You sent a rather nasty and unwarranted email accusing me
>of spamming. 
> 
> 

When it comes to spamming, my fuse is very short.  It is posssible I 
am wrong but when faced with the message headers below:


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Return-Path: <stocktrader2010@bn.chtah.com>
Received: from mail.wave.co.nz (mail.wave.co.nz
[203.96.216.11])
 by central.caverock.net.nz (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id
 g918j4W13086 for <tennyson@caverock.net.nz>; Tue, 1 Oct
 2002 20:45:04 +1200
X-Envelope-To: <tennyson@caverock.net.nz>
Received: from davida (p56.rt1.wave.co.nz
[203.96.201.56])
 by mail.wave.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA24239;
 Tue, 1 Oct 2002 20:44:24 +1200

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...just who would *you* point the accusing finger at?  Anyway I have 
had a reply from James Clark at Wave internet, who will filter out 
the true culprit.  Apologies in advance if it wasn't you, but that 
header looks incriminating to me!   The other point of suspicion is 
that since I have never heard of you, and my address was stolen from 
your outlook address book, what was my address doing in there in the 
first place?

>
>
>I suggest that before you go off your handle at anyone
>in the future You first check if they are aware of what is
>happening. Just think it may happen to you one day and 
>someone may react in a similar unpleasant manner
>
>

There is really no excuse for not having proper virus protection, 
and ignorance doesn't wash with me as an excuse!  It doesn't even 
need to cost you anything.

Go here:

http://www.grisoft.com

and download the free edition of AVG.  Updates are also free and you 
can set it to pick up updated virus definitions automatically if you 
want to.

SNOOPY



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