On Fri, 07 Jun 2002 06:36:23 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > Hello Fellow Arachnians:
> I am receiving KLEZ.H viruses rather frequently. All of them bear > a forged "From:" address, usually being the email address of a fellow > Arachne List subscriber. I know we are not the ones who are sending > these things out. The true origins of the virii are from email > addresses and SMTP servers which none of us are known to use. Until now just two attacks about 2 or 3 weeks ago. > I may presume of course that the culprits must have our email > addresses in their address books. Does anyone have any ideas as to > why these culprits would be collecting our email addresses? Some users make it very easy: I receive e-mails with a CC to sometimes hundreds of names and adresses... pick your choice! If I send an e-mail to multiple reciepients with Arachne I make a list and name it e.g. list.txt In the TO: line I type @list.txt and all the adressed people at the list will get their mail... but non of them will know who the other adressees are. Just @list.txt is their information. If your friends are so stupid to disclose their full mailinglist than malicious practice will certainly occur. > Whatever the reasons, I'm sure their purposes are not legitimate. > I wish all the email accounts that are known to send KLEZ.H virri > would get shut down. KLEZ.H is especially evil because it results > in innocent people getting accused of proliferating virii. Innocent but stupid. Mail safe, mail Arachne CU, Bastiaan > Sam Heywood > -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ -- Arachne V1.61, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
