[vox-tech] Viruses

Ryan vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Wed, 3 Mar 2004 11:22:40 -0800


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On Wednesday 03 March 2004 11:10 am, Danny Webster=20
dpwebster-at-basiclabinc.com |lugod| wrote:
> Pete,
>
> Good to know.  What about the IP address, you can't even trust that can y=
ou
> with IP spoofing can you?

You can't spoof a TCP connection over the internet because of routing.

You can, however, spoof recived headers.

But one of them is still valid, and that's probably the one that relayed th=
e=20
mesage to the destination server.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Jay Salzman" <p@dirac.org>
> To: <vox-tech@lists.lugod.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 10:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Viruses
>
> > danny,
> >
> > there is no such user.
> >
> > you can't trust the message-id field to give you a correct email
> > address.  that's one header that is under full control of the person
> > sending the email.
> >
> > pete
> >
> > On Wed 03 Mar 04, 10:57 AM, Danny Webster:
> > > I tried emailing the listed email address and it was returned, so I
>
> think it
>
> > > would be safe to eliminate this user:
> > > msqnmmladjontfutbdn@livepenguin.com
> > >
> > > Here is my sendmail record:
> > > Mar  3 04:44:52 basiclab sendmail[30372]: i23Ci2ES030372:
> > > from=3D<vox-admin@lists.lugod.org>, size=3D31379, class=3D-60, nrcpts=
=3D1,
> > > msgid=3D<msqnmmladjontfutbdn@livepenguin.com>, proto=3DESMTP, daemon=
=3DMTA,
> > > relay=3Dns1.livepenguin.com [66.218.54.136]
> > >
> > > Danny
> >
> > --
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