This is probably limited to my site, but for the last few days, users
of my mailing lists have been under attack by some party that's
forging mail to (sort of, he's not very good) look like responses to
messages posted to my mail lists. These 'responses' have the
messagemates virus attached.
So far, no damage has occured, but work continues on tracking the
idiot down and having him kneecapped. The site where the mail is
pretty clearly originating doesn't have either a postmaster or an
abuse address (gee, how, um, interesting), but fortunately, their ISP
does.
I'm posting this just in case it's not just my site. I think I have a
dweeb playing games to get even for something, but in case I've
misread the situation, I wanted to heads-up folks to be aware of the
problem. these aren't actually being posted to my site (and my site
is patched to not only not allow attachments, but to specifically
nuke this virus, just in case). If you have users reporting strange
stuff on your lists, be wary, in case this is part of a larger attack.
chuq
(not amused)
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