[LMB] virus or exploit

[Azalais Aranxta]

On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, James wrote:

> On 8/12/07, Michael Bauminger <lmblist at mikebomb.com> wrote:
> > Someone, somewhere, either has/had an exploit on their
> > computer or some spammer figured out a way to harvest
> > addresses from the archive, because I receive spam at this
> > address everyday and I *only* use this address to
> > communicate with the list (except I occasionally use it to
> > communicate directly with listies). If I did not have a
> > decent Bayesian filter in place (thank you to whoever on the
> > list recommended PopFile http://popfile.sourceforge.net/), I
> > would either be tearing my hair out or using a new address
> > for the list every few months.
>
> Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if someone has an exploit. The
> latest ones going around are quite virulent, and even the big
> companies aren't immune (I've gotten spam from addresses from specific
> companies - Toshiba and VMWare, for example), so I'm not surprised.
> (These were the "You have an eCard from xxxx" - part of the new strain
> of viruses going around. The second version of it is going around
> sending those PDFs now...).
>
> Of course, I just discard those - eCards are so 1997...

And the thing is, the addresses it comes from may not have
anything to do with the address that allegedly sends it.  I read
all my email on the server using Pine and only download things
that I've asked for or been offered and accepted using my ISP's
webmail service.  But people are constantly telling me that I'm
infected because a virus has spoofed my email address, which is
in hundreds of people's addressbooks due to the number of MLs
I've been on over the years.

~malfoy :)

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