Hello,
From: "Jeffrey A. Greenough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
# Did anyone else receive an email from a joanne somebody or other? I got
# one that said it was a e-greeting card. I thought it was for my
# daughter, but as it started to load, I noticed it had the linux-laptop
# address in it and something sex related. I killed it and scanned my
# system for viruses. Did a subscriber's account get hacked or did the
^^^^^^
The correct word is
"cracked", not "hacked",
if you mean that the subscibers
account was used for malignant reasons
by people other than himself.
Have a look at the Free OnLine Dictionnary of Computing for a
difference between "hacking" and "cracking" :
http://www.nue.org/foldoc/index.html
# news-list get hacked, or was it just me?
^^^^^^
Idem.
The message you mention seems to be the one I quote below. It looks
more like spam.
Cheers,
Etienne
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>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Mar 18 08:15:58 2000
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:45:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Joanne Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: An ICQ Greeting from Joanne Smith
Content-Type: text
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-laptop-outgoing
You have a greeting from Joanne Smith waiting for you at:
http://icq.americangreetings.com/cgi-bin/greetings/read.pl5?msg=414914&id=1007
Be creative!
Create your own ICQ Greetings at http://www.icq.com/greetings/
If you don't have ICQ you can download it at http://www.icq.com
For more greetings visit here:
http://www.icq.com/redirect/partner/ag/gallery/email.html
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