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Jhrono
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See this :
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wtf..i've reported it to the gmail guys...i mean those guys send me a virus?someone is :refuck: them...
01-16-2005 12:41 PM
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RE: Becareful with this email
Didn't get any similar thing :S
I think thats from some other site i duno how but i used to get a few every week at hotmail about a month ago but they stopped.
Thanks for the warning though (Y) :)
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just so you know, your website isnt accessible from AOL connections
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01-16-2005 01:59 PM
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sorry saralk :S...here...

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01-16-2005 02:07 PM
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First time I've seen a Bagel varient sent from someone masking as support@gmail.com. But there's been many e-mails sent from people masking as support@gmail.com, claiming to be sending free gifts, anti-spam upgrades and all kinds of things.
I vaguely recall a Gmail plan to blacklist these addresses every time they are sent to a Gmail account unless they contain a hidden code, which randomly is changed by Gmail to ensure that you only receive genuine e-mails from real looking support addresses. I also heard a rumour of a plan to only allow e-mails from certain addresses if they are sent from a certain IP address, like Gmail's server. Both these methods, in the long term, should allow the guys\bots that send malicious attachments to resort to crap and suspicious supposedly "support" addresses, which very few would think was genuine...However I haven't heard anything official on these plans, if they are even going to happen at all...
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01-16-2005 02:17 PM
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RE: Becareful with this email
That virus has nothing to do with GMail. It takes your e-mail's domain (@gmail.com) and generates the e-mail body using it. If your e-mail address was @sexypie.com it would be the same except "Gmail" would be replaced with "Sexypie"
The previous sentence is false. The following sentence is true.
01-16-2005 02:31 PM
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That virus has nothing to do with GMail. It takes your e-mail's domain (@gmail.com) and generates the e-mail body using it. If your e-mail address was @sexypie.com it would be the same except "Gmail" would be replaced with "Sexypie"

I think all of us knew that or figured that out.
I did atleast cause the company wont get away wit it newayz :)
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01-16-2005 02:46 PM
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That virus has nothing to do with GMail. It takes your e-mail's domain (@gmail.com) and generates the e-mail body using it. If your e-mail address was @sexypie.com it would be the same except "Gmail" would be replaced with "Sexypie"

I think all of us knew that or figured that out.
I did atleast cause the company wont get away wit it newayz :)

The topic starter did not as he explained to us how he had forwarded the e-mail to GMail.
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01-16-2005 03:12 PM
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RE: Becareful with this email
Emails from any mail can be faked using software, just dont open it up.
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