BTW there is a weird bug or virus out there that affects Thunder Bird.
Something is attached to the header file that supposedly "Tracks Abuse"
One must delete the message from the inbox and the inbox index file.
Thunder Bird will regenerate the index file automatically when
it is executed. At least I think that is what happened. I am not sure
who I got it from.

Send yourself a message and look at the complete header.

Paul Lamar


This could be the NSA or it could be Yahoo.
I am getting bounces from every subscriber that is on yahoo
but not all the time. I suggest people get another email provider.

I have not nailed it down yet. I suspect it is the NSA. If so
we are in real trouble. I have lived with the NSA for a long
time reading my messages and this is the first time this has
happened.

They read all my messages because they all go over seas.

So far I have no problem with that up until now. I can send a
message domestically and it travels at the speed of light. Send
it over seas and it can take many minutes.

Least you think I am insanely paranoid you might be right.
HOWEVER!
Paranoia is a heighten state of awareness. I have been
in personal computers from the beginning and I know
when things are not going right.

Paul Lamar



Try also http://www.mxtoolbox.com/ do the blacklist test with your IP
number

Randolph


Well I looked at the header of my post about CAD, and found nothing I could
determine as harmful. Granted that I have no idea what 90% of that stuff
means, but it wasn't necessarily the largest e-mail header I've seen.
Malicious code would necessarily need to be larger, than a typical email
message No?
I mean I can tell the difference when the sent from and reply to and return
path don't match up, etc etc. Nor have I seen ay reports from the paid for
security programs I have running either.
C. Smith


It does not take a lot of bytes for an asm program to really screw
things ups. Just a a few dozen will to the trick. If you are
really clever you can make the code look like a human readable
messages. Usually it is just a string of random looking characters.
These characters can be jumps to other code or jumps to subroutines
in other code which then comes back to where it started.
Call a good piece of code at the wrong time and serious damage
can be done.

That is an amazing virus. It takes a knowledge of how an email
program works to write such a virus. Apparently email header files
are standardized and anything beginning with an X in the header
is code to be executed. What follows the X up to the colon appears to
be not significant. It could say anything. Apparently it is
the X followed by some ignored characters up to the colon where
the code starts. It also seems to be retained if you forward
quote a message that contains the virus. Merely deleting the
message from your Inbox does not fix it. You must follow the
delete with a "compact" action which really does the deleting.

I am doing a lot of guessing here.

Now I did it using the Linux command line and a old command
line editor called joe which is a DOS WordStar clone. That
really deletes it. Then you must erase the Inbox index file.
It has a .msf extension. These files are probably hidden
in Windows and you may need to be the administrator to access
them. Thunderbird will regenerate  the Inbox index file when you start
it up again.

To test for it send yourself a message. If it comes back garbled
you still have it. At least that is the way it works in Linux
Thunder Bird.

Paul Lamar