From: "Ovidiu Predescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 20:21:49 +0200, Christian Haul
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > is it just me or are the rest of the team also receiving bogus emails
> > pretending to be from another committer bearing sensible cocoon
> > subject lines? (Bless terminal based mail user agents!)
> >
> > Does Apache sport a public key infrastructure?
>
> I've noticed these messages too, they started few days ago. It appears
> the virus writers took the emails from public Web archives, and they
> send the messages so they appear as coming from one of persons from
> the headers. All the messages I received come from people I sent to or
> received emails from.
>
> It's pretty scary, since you may be led into believing the other
> person sent you an email. The messages contain attachments only for
> now, but I'm sure they'll get more refined, and do copy/paste from old
> messages to be more realistic.
>
> I'm on Linux and I always look at the attachments as text, so that's
> no problem for me. Others may not be as lucky though.
>
> Also I wonder why do they target open source? Is it possible that
> someone out there wants us to become virus victims and not be able to
> do useful work?
Well, it doesn't seem something that well devised, since the viruses are DOS
.bat files, screen-savers and programs camouflaged as pif files: ie. gross
wintel viruses.
Which is a strange thing to send to an OS community, which has much is more
Linux friendly...
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Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- verba volant, scripta manent -
(discussions get forgotten, just code remains)
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