Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Spam virus

[EMAIL:PROTECTED (Rich Tollerton)]

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 04:19:24PM -0500, Ross, Matt wrote:
> A friend forwarded this to me.  Seems our dear friends who open unexpected
> attachments in windows might be our culprits:
> http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52174,00.html
> 
> Still doesn't excuse the spammers from sending to said lists, but it does
> tell how so many more have been getting our addresses lately.

I think I've been getting Klez (or something like it) for close to two
months now. An absolutely hideous beast, even though I only use mutt
for email and thus am wholly unaffected from its actual payload.
I'm averaging 3-5 100k virus emails a day, downloaded over modem,
and at least three different people (including a close friend of mine)
were duped by the fake From: headers. That's damage enough for me.

I can pretty clearly see how I received the initial deluge (something like
10-20 emails/day) - the owner of one mailing list used a giant To: header
instead of using mailing list software like he should have, so my
address wound up going in several dozen-odd address books around the world.

Moral: Friends don't let friends use distribution lists.

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Rich Tollerton <EMAIL:PROTECTED>

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