On 2004/01/06, at 20:32, Dennis Freise wrote:
On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:14:47 -0500 Nicholas Hockey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
does anybody else on this mailing list get slammed by the "Microsoft
Update" virus going around, i'm trying to figure out why i get nailed by
it all the time, and i apologize for the apparent list spam. ( i
believe the virus is called swen or gibe )
I noticed today that about 10 minutes after posting to gentoo-user-de my smtp
was flooded by attempts to send various types of virii (all ended up on clamav).
Really annoying was that my email-adress was also used to send virii to other
people (got many messages from other smtp-servers which filtered the virus)..
There are some really crappy people subscribed to that list I suppose. :-(
if i was a virus writer or spammer, i'd subscribe to as many mailing lists as possible and gather the addresses of posters. then i'd realize i could just write a program to grep web pages for "-subscribe@" and automatically handle list subscription and address harvesting. to combat that you'd need a more complex subscription mechanism--"what is the capital of assyria?" or the like.
j.
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