The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #74039   Message #1288730
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
04-Oct-04 - 09:21 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Virus alert: Fake Microsoft e-mail
Subject: RE: Tech: Virus alert: Fake Microsoft e-mail
Not 'natural English Speakers' often too.


"What is the message header, exactly?"

It's much more complex than just that. In Mailwasher you can test for many things, including Scripts etc, which can carry viruses, trojans, malware, emails not addresses personally to you, etc. If you are really interested (and without running the program or an equivalent one, any interest is purely academic), you really should visit the Mailwasher page at www.mailwasher.net (type it in so you don't get a 'redirected link'). There are lists of 'plugin scripts' there. Studiying them will educate you considerably.

Any exhaustive discussion in this thread will probably bore most people.

Robin