Receiving spam email from good friends or spam email from reputable senders - learn how spoofing can happen and be aware that you yourself may be a link in this chain of worm distribution and email spoofing

This simple definition / explanation about email spoofing / worm distribution may help you to understand why reputable email senders or your best friends may suddenly appear as sender of spam.

You are most likely part of this worm distribution chain because you most likely use windows operating system and hence may have plenty of worms or malware on your system without knowing it. That is one of the key reasons why millions of smart professionals - like the swiss government and many other really smart companies and myself :) - use Linux for much improved security and privacy.

The most important part of spoofing and email spam is that the apparent sender most of the time has absolutely NO idea about the incident at all and he is in most cases in no way the source of the worm - because any person out in the www having a foreign or friend's email address stored in HIS computer most likely is the actual origin of that sender's address.

Hence email spoofing is a global problem and may continue to persist until all have switched to a secure operating system or until all word has become loving and honest.

Love and bliss

hans