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  1. December 18th, 2003, 05:10 PM #1
    oxygen
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    weird e-mail hack

    hey all

    Lately I have been getting mails sent from my own yahoo account
    it looks like this

    To : myid@yahoo.com

    From : myid@yahoo.com

    I chgd the passwd thinking someone might hav got my passwd.......but with no luck........
    I think its got something to do with open relay. wht ya guys think about this.......is there any way to block this. or any sites that explains on this.
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  2. December 18th, 2003, 05:13 PM #2
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    Can you post the rest of the mail headers, but I'm certain that the from address will be a forgery.

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  3. December 18th, 2003, 05:21 PM #3
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    I think its got something to do with open relay
    Agree with steve.milner, definitly a forged source adress.
    The above sentences are produced by the propaganda and indoctrination of people manipulating my mind since 1987, hence, I cannot be held responsible for this post\'s content - me

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  4. December 18th, 2003, 05:25 PM #4
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    Heres the content format


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  5. December 18th, 2003, 05:28 PM #5
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    You should be able to change some settings that will display more header information.

    In case you don't know how he probably forged that email:

    telnet mail.ahost.com 25

    HELO ahost.com
    MAIL FROM: myid@yahoo.com
    RCPT TO: myid@yahoo.com
    DATA
    Subject: stuff
    Other stuff here
    .
    QUIT
    The above sentences are produced by the propaganda and indoctrination of people manipulating my mind since 1987, hence, I cannot be held responsible for this post\'s content - me

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  6. December 18th, 2003, 05:32 PM #6
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    I was going thru "Hacking exposed" book and found something like el-half mentioned. So it is using some open relay server...?
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  7. December 18th, 2003, 05:32 PM #7
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    Oxygen;

    To show 'all headers' in yahoo you can do the following:

    - Open an email

    - At the bottome where it says the following - click on 'Edit Preferences'
    The HTML graphics in this message have been displayed. [Edit Preferences - What's This?]

    - In about the middle of this screen of choices will be one for Headers, select 'Show ALL headers on incoming messages' instead of 'Show brief headers on incoming messages' (which was the default)

    - Now go back to your mail folder and reopen the email


    Hope that helps, obviously you can use the same method to switch it back to 'show brief...' whenever you want to also.

    RRP
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  8. December 18th, 2003, 05:35 PM #8
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    Euhm, MemorY, didn't I just told that??
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  9. December 18th, 2003, 05:38 PM #9
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    Yeah i was editing it and everyhting then saw that you already wrote that. My bad. Am deleting it now.
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  10. December 18th, 2003, 05:39 PM #10
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    Originally posted here by oxygen
    Heres the content format


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    Not quite what I was looking for.

    Are you using MSOutlook? If so go to http://support.easystreet.com/softwa...00/headers.htm for some instructions on how to get full headers, and then copy and paste.

    Remove any of your own IP addresses/names that you want to keep sectre, but keep as much in as possible.

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