spam

[Charles Mallahan Jr.]

When I received this virus, the addressee's all had @swbell.net on them, I
received it Wednesday.

Joe Brouhard wrote:

> I screwed up the first tine.. here's the re-send..
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joe Brouhard [mailto:jbrouhard at home.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 9:15 AM
> > To: kclug at kclugorg
> > Subject: RE: spam
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >     I am not sure if everyone got this, but today morning I got spam
> > > mail. I looked at the headers and it looked like they somehow got my
> > > address from the kclug list. It was from some porn site, I think.. The
> > > address is "hahaha at sexyfun.net". I use fetchmail+postfix+procmail+mutt
> > > combination. Is there an easy way to set up automatic bounce filters for
> > > such stuff? Right now, I just take the address and make a procmail rule
> > > directing all such mail to /dev/null, can our list set up
> > > automatic filters?
> > >
> >
> > Hate to say this, but hahaha at sexyfun.net is the origin address
> > for a Windows
> > virus.  I've ran across it four or five times already (Thank god
> > for Norton
> > AntiVirus), and It's still making arounds.
> >
> > If you have windoze boxes, delete the message, or have your AntiVirus
> > software quarterine the file.  I'm going to be doing some e-mail tests
> > shortly to see if I got infected.
> >
> > Joe Brouhard
> > Web Designer
> > WebKnights - Website Design Team
> > http://armada.homeip.net/webknights/
> > jbrouhard at Home.com
> >
> >
>

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Regards,

Charles Mallahan
mallahan at swbell.net