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ET_1987
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June 28, 2013
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Adobe.com has been penetrated by hackers?

  • June 28, 2013
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why did I received an auto insurance email from "carlnsurance-Notice@adobe.com"?

anyone knows why? how could this happen?

I am worried & concerned.

Thanks!

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    Correct answer mytaxsite

    You haven't received anything from Adobe.  The e-mail is a spam and you may know that they spammers use any address in the FROM field to full the spam filters and their targets.  You are a prime example here.

    The only way to know who actually sent you and from which country is by looking at the e-mail headers.  You haven't posted this here so I can't tell you who actually sent you this e-mail.

    Just because from contains "Adobe" does not mean it is from Adobe.  Remember this.

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    the_wine_snob
    the_wine_snob
    Inspiring
    June 28, 2013

    As has been posted above, the general From line can have anything munged into it. I get spam, that has my e-dress as the initiating party, but that Header info tells another story.

    Good luck,

    Hunt

    mytaxsite
    mytaxsiteCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    June 28, 2013

    You haven't received anything from Adobe.  The e-mail is a spam and you may know that they spammers use any address in the FROM field to full the spam filters and their targets.  You are a prime example here.

    The only way to know who actually sent you and from which country is by looking at the e-mail headers.  You haven't posted this here so I can't tell you who actually sent you this e-mail.

    Just because from contains "Adobe" does not mean it is from Adobe.  Remember this.

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    ET_1987Author
    Participating Frequently
    June 28, 2013

    plz look at the screen shot, where do you see the "header"?

    Thanks!

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    mytaxsite
    mytaxsite
    Inspiring
    July 4, 2013

    Guess I am computer illiterate, how does one find who owns an IP? 

    THis is for general knowledge, did not receive this message.


    No you are not as illiterate as I am but anyway the answer to your question is that I look it up on Arin.net and I got this:

    <http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-184-104-0-0-1/pft>

    1) Go to http://arin.net and then look for the search box on the right side that looks like this:

    2) plug in the IP address you want to see and you get this box:

    You need to scroll down the page to get other info as well.

    Another way is to download a tool that can run from your disk without installing it.  The tool is at this link:

    <http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/ipnetinfo.html>

    Scroll down the page after reading what it can do and you will see the download page.  Unzip it and run the executable file and plug in the box your IP address and it will tell you who owns it.  DOWNLOAD THE ZIP FILE NOT THE INSTALLER EXE FILE.

    NOTE: Some anti-virus programs might alert you that this is a hacking tool or something like that but just ignore it because it is completely safe.  Run it as a limited user on your machine so that you are protected if you are still in doubt.

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