Please don't post Microsoft Windows Viruses or Worms to the mailing list (Was: Re: [kaffe] Your details)

Jim White jim@pagesmiths.com
Tue Aug 19 17:03:03 2003


James Simmons wrote:
>>;)
> 
> I don't think that is a real person. Those messages have been going around 
> many mailing list.

Well, I am a real person, but I didn't send the message.  One good clue 
(to me) is that the mailer is Outlook Express 6.0.  I run Mac OS X using 
Mozilla 1.4 (I do have Outlook Express 9.0 for Mac but it isn't 
configured for SMTP).  Also I think it says that the originating server 
is 203.48.48.254 which lacks a reverse DNS.

Fake message:

> Received: from [203.48.48.254] (helo=SUPPSERVER)
> 	by boots.jimpick.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian))
> 	id 19pFNX-0001dd-00
> 	for <kaffe@kaffe.org>; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:55:05 -0700
> From: <jim@pagesmiths.com>
> To: <kaffe@kaffe.org>
> X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
> Importance: Normal
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000

A real message from me:

> Received: from pagesmiths.com ([68.106.217.203]) by fed1mtao04.cox.net
>           (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP
>           id <20021221233342.LNFJ27125.fed1mtao04.cox.net@pagesmiths.com>;
>           Sat, 21 Dec 2002 18:33:42 -0500
> Message-ID: <3E04FA53.3060902@pagesmiths.com>
> From: Jim White <jim@pagesmiths.com>
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529

I'm getting a slew of those bogus emails, but at least my system won't 
be sending any.

Jim
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