Dealing with SPAM WAS has my system been compromised?

[JT Moree]

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Alex Dean wrote:
> On Sep 12, 2006, at 9:08 PM, Michael wrote:
> 
>> I just got an email from a spam blocker. I think my system has been
>> compromised. What should I do to fix this?
> 
> Faking the 'From' address on an email is about as hard as faking the
> return address on a paper letter.  Anybody can write an email and say
> it's 'from' you.  Not much you can do about it.

Has anyone used SPF (http://www.openspf.org/) or other email
identification schemes.  Yahoo had one (domain keys
http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys) and Microsoft had one.

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JT Morée
PC Xperience, Inc.
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