Re: To spoof or not to spoof???? That is the question....

[jseymour () linxnet com (Jim Seymour)]

InHisGrip <servie_platon () yahoo com> wrote:
>
[snip]
> I was just wondering why this happened again? 
[snip]

One or more people have you in their MS address books.  The virus is
simply picking *your* email address with which to spoof the source.

> What are the possibilities? Is my yahoo mail account
> been infected? 

Y! uses MS servers for their web mail stuff?

>                Or is it possible that a person that I
> know has been infected that's why occasionally it
> sends an email to all addresses in the address book?
[snip]

Yes.

> Can anyone please enlighten me on this email spoofing
> before I decomission this email for good and use
> another one if there is no cure or solution for this. 
[snip]

Learn to read email headers.  Then you can figure out whence it's
really coming.  Google for something like

    read+email+header

or

    read+email+header+<whatever your email client is>

to find out how.

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