----- Forwarded message from Francois Gouget <fgou...@free.fr> ----- Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 14:23:52 +0100 (CET) From: Francois Gouget <fgou...@free.fr> To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Virus spam in the bug tracker User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) List-Id: <debian-devel.lists.debian.org>
This has been mentionned before but today I discovered that a lot of Debian bugs have a bunch of spam emails on their tail end. What's worse, these actually contain a virus in an attachment. Do a web search for: site:bugs.debian.org FedEx site:bugs.debian.org USPS delivery site:bugs.debian.org UPS delivery Since these date back to about 3 to 6 months ago I wonder if the administrators missed them. I reported a few dozen of them but it looks like something that administrators could cleanup much more efficiently since all these spams are very similar (bug #854201 discusses spamassassin rules to block them). Essentially any email that contains the words "FedEX", "USPS" or "UPS", and the word "delivery" and a zip or doc attachment contains a virus. It also feels like this is the sort of email that could have been trivially blocked with an anti-virus before ever reaching the BTS. -- Francois Gouget <fgou...@free.fr> http://fgouget.free.fr/ If it stinks, it's chemistry. If it moves, it's biology. If it does not work, it's computer science. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- cheers, Holger
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