i took it more as a grain of pepper and just wanted to warn y'all of the
impending virus attack that may or may not be sent around.
thanks for the break down though.
On 6/16/06, Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 16 June 2006 03:01 pm, Daniel McQuay wrote:
hello list,
i have been receiving random emails infected with viruses from what
appear
to be the mysql mailing list. gmail kills the virus form me but i
thought i
would let y'all know about this, just to be on the safe side. here are
the
details of the email.
You've now experienced the lovely and wonderful world of email header
spoofing. When you send an email, you get headers sent with it. They
generally follow the format of:
Header: Value
Now, given that, you can put darn well anything you want in there. So I
could
say:
From: mysql@lists.mysql.com
Through some magic mojo and become the MySQL mailing list. So in
conclusion, don't take what you see worth a grain of salt when it comes to
who things are from in the email world.
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