On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 16:47:55 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >2) 90% of the time the subject is in the form: Re: (random nonsense word in >upper case), three random, unrelated or related english words: Re: NDOCIVP, >kuzmins hand fell, Re: QHBY, hooded man with -- 10% of the time it is just >several unrelated words: countrify balsam algorithm comatose b's
The three words after the comma come from an English translation of a novel by M. Bulgakov at <http://lib.ru/BULGAKOW/>. For some percentage of the traffic, the initial random upper-case string won't be substituted, and the expression "%RND_UC_CHAR[2-8" appears instead. >They all appear to be coming froma very wide variety of networks, Verizon, >Comcast, etc. Is it possible that this is a result of the effects of the >Blaster virus doing the dirty on the machine of people who are unaware? This appears to be a Russian-made ratware edition that makes use of compromised boxes, as you have observed. >Anyone else getting these at abysmal rate? I haven't tried to calculate the rate (I get about 1,200 spams a day) but it's probably in the range you quote. mdr -- The hits just keep on coming for poor "Nadine". See the sad tale of email lists gone horribly wrong at <http://www.honet.com/Nadine/> F - IW AA #2157 GEVNP _______________________________________________ spamcon-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.spamcon.org/mailman/listinfo/spamcon-general#subscribers Subscribe, unsubscribe, etc: Use the URL above or send "help" in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
