On 4 Apr 2005 15:53:34 -0700, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, "AvianFlux"
<neomoniker@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
[snip redundant complete copy of previous article -- *please* learn to
quote correctly]
>
> "You may be able to distinguish between legit and illegit email but the
> average user who receive an email from an address that he/she
> recognises will open it."
>
> Legit email is easy to distinguish for anyone.
>
> One) Legitimate email comes from known/legitimate sources, generally,
> without attachments, e.g., family, friends, business associates, etc.
>
[snip]

The trap you're falling into is, while you may trust the *intentions* of those
"family, friends, business associates, etc.", you near-certainly *cannot*
trust their competence and dedication to ensuring that *they* are necessarily
maintaining a "sterile" computing environment. Hence, viruses, trojans,
worms, etc., may indeed come from those sources.

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Jay T. Blocksom
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