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[John Broome <jbroome AT gmail.com>]

On Sep 30, 2010, at 9:41, Jeanne Moyer <jeanne.moyer AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Many of my friends and contacts have had their email addresses hijacked 
> lately. Seems more hotmai than any otherl, only one gmail so far.  What 
> should I be doing to protect my computer other than the obvious?
>

The thing about email is there's nothing to prevent me from sending
mail that looks like it's from you to everyone in the world
advertising boner pills.

The from: can be easily spoofed.

If it's a cracked password on their account and someone is spamming
the address book that can be fixed with a PW change to something other
than their cats name.