virus

[Elian Degen J.]

David and List

All this big automated servers, and the large ammount of Internet traffic
have made it possible.
You can try it yourself:
Go to any of the large freemails in internet, open an account, use a false
name and address, and that´s it...
you can in fact use Anonymus as username.

Whatever happens, the only way to stop it is sending a message to web
administrator, and they will close the account, meanwhile the purpose was
served, that server could have launched several thousands of mails...

Elian



----- Original Message -----
From: "David Ilvedson" <ilvey@jps.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 12:14 PM
Subject: virus


> List,
>
> I just received a post from anonymous@onemain.com which was
> infected with a virus, according to McAvee.  I deleted it of course
> and am scanning my system just to be safe...Question:  How can
> people send e-mail as anonymous?  Isn't their identity known
> somwhere?
>
> David I.
>
> David Ilvedson, RPT