On 2/13/07, Thomas Hruska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tamas Marki wrote: > > On 2/13/07, Thomas Hruska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> The message. > >>> Thank you > >> Just in case someone is wondering why Victor sent a virus - he didn't. > >> This is something that's been going around and it is easy enough to > >> spoof an e-mail address. Use your delete key. Not sure who is at IP > >> address 59.92.104.167, but here is some information: > >> 59.92.104.167 > >> IN (India) > >> Region 25 (Tamil Nadu) > >> Perundurai > >> Lat/Long: 11.2667 77.5833 > >> > >> ISP: > >> NIB (National Internet Backbone) > >> NIB (National Internet Backbone) > >> > >> Someone on this list in India from Perundurai is spoofing c-prog > >> members. Get yourself a virus scanner (ClamWin, AVG, etc.). Please. > > > > I think it's not a person, just an infected computer. Virii are smart > > these days to do these tricks on their own. It would be best if > > everyone would scan their computer (especially if they use a flavor of > > windows), but seeing these new virus capabilities it might not help. > > As an interesting fact I'd mention that Gmail filters out these > > messages, so I never see them (not even the spam folder). > > I, however, think it IS a person. At least someone who has this list > and Victor's address in their address book/message queue. How (and why) > would a virus target c-prog using Victor's e-mail address if both > weren't in someone's address book? Viruses don't spam themselves > indiscriminately and randomly. They'll spoof using existing knowledge > and preferably recent knowledge (the spam message was sent shortly after > Victor sent a series of messages). So the person is or was a member of > c-prog group at some point in time. Unless I'm mistaken and you can > point me at a virus that is specifically targeting this group.
I agree, the user of the computer was at some point a member of c-prog, that's for sure. I just wanted to say that it's probably not intentional, the virus/trojan just scans the mailbox of the user and extracts email addresses to spam. -- Tamas Marki
