Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Spam virus

[Mustafa Gringo <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I've heard a lot of talk recently about these big viruses and things, and maybe I'm just isolated from the world but I've only recieved 1 email from a virus(about 9 months ago), and probably haven't had a virus in close to two years now(especially since I've started using linux).  Am I the only one like this?

On Thu, 2 May 2002 16:47:42 -0500, EMAIL:PROTECTED (Rich Tollerton) wrote:

> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Rich Tollerton <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
> 
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