Virus source (Re: exception)

Jon Hanna jon at hackcraft.net
Mon Mar 8 16:54:50 CET 2004


Quoting Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no>:

> This particular virus mail instance seems to have originated from a PC in 
> Poland:
> 
> --On 8. mars 2004 09:43 +0100 harald at alvestrand.no wrote:
> 
> > Received: from iana.org (sn242.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [80.50.126.242])
> > 	by pechora.icann.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i288p2802505
> > 	for <ietf-languages at iana.org>; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 00:51:03 -0800

Yes, it's important to realise that Harald's name being in the from field
doesn't mean it's from Harald (as the recent mails I've received from
staff at hackcraft.net proves, unless I hired them while very drunk or
something).

-- 
Jon Hanna
<http://www.hackcraft.net/>
"
it has been truly said that hackers have even more words for
equipment failures than Yiddish has for obnoxious people." - jargon.txt


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