CPHennessy wrote:

>On Saturday 06 August 2005 07:48, Robert Stemp wrote:
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>>To whom it may concern:
>>I am subscribed to the OpenOffice.org Users mailing list and I have
>>noticed that there is a lot of e-mail sent from one user at your domain.
>>The e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] The
>>e-mails sent by this address always have attachments (the list server
>>removes all attachments but if there is an attachment, it replaces it
>>with a text file). The body of the e-mails makes them appear to be sent
>>by a mass-mailing e-mail virus/worm. It is possible that someone is
>>stealing the domain name, but I would request you look into this. I am
>>not an admin for the list, but I feel that if your network is being
>>misused that you should be informed of it. I am sorry that this is in
>>English, I know zero Russian or Belarusian.
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>Thanks Robert, 
> I've asked the providers of our email list facilities to look into this only 
>a few hours ago :) It's in Issuetracker if you want to have a look at the 
>progress of this issue.
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After looking at the information posted in Issuetracker, the headers
that were posted with the message were the headers from Collabnet (the
mailing list server). When I first noticed these e-mails I tried to see
if the address was spoofed but the original headers are removed (for
security reasons, which is a good thing) and the list-serv headers are
added. You need who ever is looking into this to get the original,
intact headers for the e-mail to determine if it is from a user at the
Institute for Applied Physics at the Belarus National Academy of
Science, or, from what I could get on-line at Symantec, a spoofed e-mail
address by a Netsky mass mailing virus variant.
Robert

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