No need to pwn the DNS, McAffee has friam.org yellow listed:

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/friam.org

McAfee TrustedSource web reputation analysis found potential suspicious
behavior on this site which may pose a security risk. Use with caution.

<http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/friam.org>

So, which one you is linking to friam.org from your drive by download
emporiums?

-- rec --

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote:

> The IP address that the x-spam-report lists as blacklisted [209.86.89.62
> listed in list.dnswl.org] maps to elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net which
> doesn't have any relationship to anything that Owen sent.  Ah, but it is one
> of smtp servers that Nick's email client uses, it shows up in the headers as
> the recipient of email from NicksPC.  So Nick's earthlink mail sender is/was
> blacklisted at dnswl.org, but earthlink probably fixed that as fast as
> they could.
>
> I've looked at headers for several messages, I don't see the x-spam-report
> in any, where were they?  Only in messages from Nick delivered to Owen?
>  Owen, does hostgo.com host the mailbox for backspaces.net?  They might
> only insert the x-spam-report into mail being delivered to locally hosted
> mailboxes.  The headers appear in most recently inserted first order, so if
> the x-spam-report appears close to the final delivery, it's probably only in
> your copies.
>
> The SiteAdvisor warning is probably unrelated to the x-spam-report that
> Owen is seeing.  SiteAdvisor is saying that McAffee has friam.org (or the
> IP address that DNS lookup returned for friam.org) in a list of hazardous
> sites, not to be confused with a list of sites that are spam generators.
>
> Seeing nothing strange at friam.org according to my DNS lookup, I would
> wonder if Nick's DNS has been pwned.  That is, despite the paranoia which
> we've instilled in Nick, he still managed to install a trojan that has
> hijacked the DNS services on his machine to redirect him to more bad sites.
>
> -- rec --
>
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Nicholas Thompson <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Isn’t it the sort of header that would trigger such a response in mcafee?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On
>> Behalf Of *Owen Densmore
>> *Sent:* Monday, January 03, 2011 10:56 AM
>>
>> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
>> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] dropbox?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *McAfee SiteAdvisor Warning*
>>
>>
>>
>> This e-mail message contains potentially unsafe links to these sites:
>>
>>
>> <http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/friam.org?pip=false&premium=true&client_uid=1064314504&client_ver=3.3.0.168&client_type=IEPlugin&suite=true&aff_id=0&locale=en_us&os_ver=6.1.0.0>
>>
>> friam.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Looking at the long headers, I still see the hostgo tag warning:
>>
>>                                                    *X-Spam-Report: *     Spam
>> detection software, running on the system "milan.hostgo.com", has
>> identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has
>> been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar
>> future email.  If you have any questions, see the administrator of that
>> system for details. Content preview: Off topic: The warning only appears
>> only on FRIAM messages and it appears on all of them. Is there anything
>> about FRIAM that the list-owner should be attending to? [...]  Content
>> analysis details:   (-2.2 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name
>> description ---- ----------------------
>> -------------------------------------------------- -0.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE
>> RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, low trust [209.86.89.62
>> listed in list.dnswl.org] -0.0 T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain
>> matches handover relay domain -1.9 BAYES_00               BODY: Bayes spam
>> probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] -0.3 AWL AWL: From: address is in the
>> auto white-list
>>
>>
>>
>> But I'm not sure that would rase the warning you see.
>>
>>
>>
>>     -- Owen
>>
>>
>> On Jan 2, 2011, at 8:41 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
>>
>>
>> Off topic:
>>
>> The warning only appears only on FRIAM messages and it appears on all of
>> them.
>>
>> Is there anything about FRIAM that the list-owner should be attending to?
>>
>> N
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
>> Behalf
>> Of Owen Densmore
>> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 6:54 PM
>> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group; SFx Discuss
>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] dropbox?
>>
>>             McAfee SiteAdvisor Warning
>>
>>             This e-mail message contains potentially unsafe links to
>> these
>> sites:
>>             friam.org
>>
>> I've started to use dropbox and it seems a real winner!  I really like the
>> way it combines a remote disk along with local sync'ed folders.
>>
>> Would anyone who doesn't have a dropbox account yet be willing to sign up
>> as
>> a referral?
>>             https://www.dropbox.com/referrals
>>
>> If you want to start an account, let me refer you first, and we'll BOTH
>> get
>> 250MB more .. up to a limit of 8GB.  Just send me an email, I'll fill the
>> form above, and we'll both get a larger account.
>>
>>    -- Owen
>>
>>
>>
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