Off-topic for the sane-devel list, but: Even though e-mail attachments with Windows viruses do not threaten me personally at all, I am concerned very much about security. And I understand from the security team at Auburn University, where I work, that basically we can't do very much about things coming from sites outside the U.S. So I want to ask, and maybe somebody over across the Big Water knows who to talk to.
Why do I get so many apparent breakin attempts recorded in my log files, from, of all places, wanadoo.fr? What is happening there, anyway? Sorry again about the off-topic. If anyone has any idea what is happening then contact me directly and leave it off the sane-devel site. But how else do I ask a public question? And I see the name wanadoo.fr right here in this message, too. Ted Kilgore On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > Just for your information: I got quite a view emails containing binary > attachments that look like a worm or virus intended for MS Windows. > Nothing unusual but this time they claim to be sent by the SANE > mailinglist or other senders in connection to SANE or scanners. Peter > Fales told me he got one pretending to be sent by me so maybe others > have also received such mails. > > The emails don't come from the persons or lists indicated in the From: > header. Be careful if you use insecure mailers or operating systems :-) > > Examples of From: headers: > > support <[email protected]> > inet <[email protected]> > majordomo <[email protected]> > sane-devel <[email protected]> > > Examples of subjects: > A funny game > Accepter les cookies pour que ce service > A WinXP patch > Let's be friends > > >From the received headers, the emails have been sent through different > hosts at e.g. teleline.es, ornis.com and wanadoo.fr which don't seem > to be open relays but I only had a quick look. > > Bye, > Henning > _______________________________________________ > Sane-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel >
