Re: Virus or Spam?

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"Scott M." <s-mar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks Rich, but let me add one more thing...

When I look at the email address that supposedly sent the message, it isn't
a valid address on my domain. It has my domain as the dot com part, but the
user name is completely bogus.

Then it's just a spoofed address used by the spammer to avoid
detection. These people have no qualms about causing anyone lots of
problems as long as they can get someone, anyone, to read their crap.

If you're using W2K3 SP2, turn on SenderID and put your authorized
SMTP servers into the appropriately formatted TXT record in your
external DNS. That should stop most of the junk.

http://openspf.org/ (used to be http://spf.pobox.com)

Get yourself a good spam filter, too. Use IMF (provided it works for
you) if nothing else.

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Rich Matheisen
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