ON SPOOFERS _________
This is presented as true to the best recollection and is offered
for guidance with NO warranty expressed or implied.
Your mileage may vary.
The InterNet was initially designed to be used
easily, conveniently, and fluidly between
HONORABLE peers. It was NOT designed to be used as it has
grown to be used, but it's a bit late to start over.
There are a lot of DIShonorable users who seem
to obtain some satisfaction from pretending/disguising/spoofing
and passing themselves off as being other people.
They can do this because of major flaws in the identification processes of
the InterNet.
One kind of spoofing is tricking you to believe that the source of an E-Mail message
is someone other than the real sender.
When you get an incoming email that looks like it came from
"John Miller" < John.Miller@TrustedRelative.com >
it may actually have come from him or maybe it really came from
"Shag Nasty" < Shag.Nasty@SkullDuggery.org >
In the latter case, the message may just simply mislead you regarding its content,
or it may contain a harmful VIRUS.
For more about viruses, see at ...
On_Viruses
For further info, see at ...
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/business/0103/19techbud.html
http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/email_spoofing.html
http://www2.laca.org/documentation/technical/email_spoof.html
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.klez.h@mm.html
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/
and give it the following search arguments
spoof
spoofing
e-mail spoofing
especially ...
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci840262,00.html
HIJACKING__
Another kind of spoofing is tricking you to believe that you are contacting one InterNet
WebSite when actually you are contacting another; this is often known as Hijacking.
For example ...
To verify the integrity of your account, please contact us at ...
www.TrustWorthy.Com
Be On Guard ! !
On_Other_Stuff