Re: Beware of Virus zip attachment [Was: SUO: Weah, hello! :-)]

["John F. Sowa" <sowa@bestweb.net>]

Murray et al.,

I have been traveling and away from my computer.
So the message you received was not from my
machine.  But I have received notices of messages
that were "spoofed" with my userid "harvested"
from various web sites.

One way to check for spoofing is to look at the
message headers.  (Most email handlers provide
a way to look at all headers, instead of the
normal subset of just the more interesting data.)

If a message from this computer is sent through bestweb,
the message should come from some bestweb.net site
with an IP address that is something like 216.179.1.108.
The last two numbers may vary, but the first two should
be 216.179.  If they are any other numbers, then the
message came from somewhere else.

Please check the headers of this message and compare
them to the headers of the earlier message you received.
I'd like to know what differences you see.

John