The last time I had a spam attack it was the middle of the night. It was quickly solved with a frying pan, butter, two slices of bread and some mustard :-)
From: owner-emc-p...@listserv.ieee.org [mailto:owner-emc-p...@listserv.ieee.org] On Behalf Of Rich Nute Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 12:29 PM To: Product Safety Technical Committee Cc: Jim Bacher; Mike Cantwell; Scott Douglas; David Heald Subject: Turkish Tabloid -- Spiegel -- Sober -- a brief explanation Since May 16, worldwide spam messages have been sent containing links to the Spiegel web site. One of those messages found its way to emc-pstc. The spam uses a variant of the mass-mailing worm Sober. This worm taps into inboxes and then sends out infected mail to everyone listed. If emc-pstc is listed in the mailbox, then our emc-pstc listserver will treat the message as a valid posting >from a valid subscriber. According to the Spiegel web site, the "spam attack was apparently conducted by Germany-based neo-Nazis." You can find a complete explanation at the Spiegel web site under "newsletter." Details of the re-appearance of the Sober worm can be readily found on various web sites using a search engine such as Google. I trust you find this explanation acceptable, and will not blame subscribers for this worm-caused breach of our postings rules. If you have any further questions or comments, please contact me off-line. With best regards, Richard Nute Co-Administrator, IEEE PSES emc-pstc Listserver c/o Hewlett-Packard Company San Diego This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to emc-p...@ieee.org Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas emcp...@ptcnh.net Mike Cantwell mcantw...@ieee.org For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
