Selam Dehaiers
My son said the virus alert I posted 2/37/97 had the earmarks of a hoax. If
so, my apologies for wasting people's time reading the alert. Maybe the
best thing to do is treat a virus alert as a one-line news item.
Apparently any message can look legitimate through deceptive routing. A
hoax expert on CBS's "60 Minutes" last night showed how easy it was to send
something as if it were from someone else by routing it through that
person's server. On the spot he sent something appearing to be from the
person interviewing him by sending it through her CBS server, and he has
already warned the White House that it is easy to route through there to
create supposed presidential messages.
His advice: don't take source and content for granted anymore.
Mary L.
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