On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 20:31 -0500, Chuck MATTSEN wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 20:15 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 00:25 +0100, James Ascroft-Leigh wrote:
> > > All,
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 09:57 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > If the message will not displayed automatically,
> > > > follow the link to read the delivered message.
> > > > 
> > > > Received message is available at:
> > > > www.ximian.com/inbox/evolution/read.php?sessionid-8463 
> > > >  
> > > 
> > > I am using the 1.5.7 build from Debian unstable + experimental.  The
> > [snip]
> > 
> > Did you get this email privately, or via the ML?  This reminds me of
> > the social engineering I've seen on some recent viruses.
> 
> Indeed.  I've seen a few of them (I believe all coming /ostensibly/ via
> the Evolution mailing list) which offer this link to read the
> "undelivered" mail.  If you examine the message's source, however,
> you'll see that the link which purports to be to www.ximian.com is
> actually fake and in reality triggers the executable code contained in
> the message.

The ones I've seen pretend to be from my ISP.  Very well done, too.

> On a related note, I've seen quite a few which also have fake antivirus
> taglines which claim the message has been scanned and is free of
> malicious code.  Yeah, right ... :-)

But since we don't run Windows, it doesn't really matter!

-- 
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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