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Two quick questions

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1. Lately, I've been getting a lot of email from myself in the spam folder in gmail, and I'm now sure it's spoofed. Should I be reporting it to the gmail spam?

2. Uhm.. a more serious question. The only firewall I run currently is the one bundled with Windows and the router one. Now, I've tried a few of them (matter of fact, I have a ZoneAlarm I'm about to try), but can anyone find a relatively easy to configure firewall with a low memory footprint?
 
Rika said:
1. Lately, I've been getting a lot of email from myself in the spam folder in gmail, and I'm now sure it's spoofed. Should I be reporting it to the gmail spam?
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You can, but I doubt there's much that can be done. They might be spoofing the name it allegedly comes from but they're probably coming from multiple locations.

Rika said:
2. Uhm.. a more serious question. The only firewall I run currently is the one bundled with Windows and the router one. Now, I've tried a few of them (matter of fact, I have a ZoneAlarm I'm about to try), but can anyone find a relatively easy to configure firewall with a low memory footprint?
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If you have the Windows firewall with XP SP2 or Vista, then it's as good with incoming traffic as any other firewall. Replacing it with anything else is more of a preference thing or for filtering outgoing traffic.
 
1. I certainly would advise you to notify your ISP, lest you lose access for terms of service violations.

2. Dunno. According to Bob (the resident tech expert), our wireless router offers quite adequate firewalling. Vista's built-in also seems sufficient for my needs. He has a Mac, and insists this means he has a lot less to worry about.
 
Rika said:
As for 1, it's not my email through ISP. I should probably forward some to gmail to see if they can do anything about it.
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Before you alert 'Gmail HQ', you can do some 'homework' that will help you and/or us on this thread and, if need be, 'Gmail HQ' to start resolving the issue

When an email is opened in Gmail, there is Reply | ∇ in the upper-right corner

Click on the ∇ and select Show Original

You will then see (in a new tab/window) a looong version of the message (as in the spoiler below) with some info that is only useful when trying to figure out who/what is messing with you

Delivered-To: john.doe@gmail.com
Received: by 10.42.42.42 with SMTP id abcdefg123hijkl12345678999999999999ccc;
Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:02:21 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.42.42.42 with SMTP id abcdefg123hijkl12345678999999999999ccc;
Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:02:21 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <nobody@jref.randi.org>
Received: from jref.randi.org (42.43.170.98-static.reverse.softlayer.com [42.42.42.42])
by mx.google.com with ESMTP id l31si8753501rvb.5.2009.42.42.42.42.42;
Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:02:21 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 42.42.42.42 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of nobody@jref.randi.org) client-ip=42.42.42.42;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 208.42.42.42 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of nobody@jref.randi.org) smtp.mail=nobody@jref.randi.org
Received: from nobody by jref.randi.org with local (Exim 4.42)
(envelope-from <nobody@jref.randi.org>)
id 1LiM0q-0007WY-LG
for john.doe@gmail.com; Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:02:20 -0500
To: john.doe@gmail.com
Subject: "Computers and the Internet" update
From: "JREF Forum" <jrefweb@gmail.com>
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
Message-ID: <20090314050214.abcdefg123hijkl12345678999999999999ccc@forums.randi.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Priority: 3
X-Mailer: vBulletin Mail via PHP
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:02:20 -0500
X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report
X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - jref.randi.org
X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gmail.com
X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [42 42] / [42 42]
X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - jref.randi.org

Dear six7s,

You are subscribed to the forum Computers and the Internet, there have been 0 new thread(s) and 10 updated thread(s).
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=23

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The following threads have been updated:
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Two quick questions
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=137430
In forum: Computers and the Internet
Started by: Rika
 
Good idea about checking the headers. I used to have a site in my bookmarks to help me re-parse all the headers into short form for quick analysis. I'll see if I can find it.
 
Headers

Delivered-To: -snipped-@gmail.com
Received: by 10.231.35.66 with SMTP id o2cs34565ibd;
Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:35:33 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.216.23.212 with SMTP id v62mr1207266wev.43.1237062932376;
Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:35:32 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <-snipped-@gmail.com>
Received: from ?203.171.180.181? ([203.171.180.181])
by mx.google.com with ESMTP id g11si6357147gve.5.2009.03.14.13.35.30;
Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:35:32 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning -snipped-@gmail.com does not designate 203.171.180.181 as permitted sender) client-ip=203.171.180.181;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning -snipped-@gmail.com does not designate 203.171.180.181 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=-snipped-@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:35:32 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <49bc1514.0b9e100a.6d53.7481SMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com>
From: "Osiul" <-snipped-@gmail.com>
To: -snipped-@gmail.com
Subject: 8 p.m. at our bar
X-Priority: 3
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset = "iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
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I should look at the tothers, but I selected this one pretty much at random.
 
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