On Saturday 23 October 2004 09:43 am, einheit wrote: > Pierre Thomson wrote: > >SpamAssassin flagged this just now, and MailScanner removed it from the > > stream. The main hits were DCC and RBL related. > > > >Good work, SA! > > > >http://frodo.bruderhof.com/redhat.txt > > Nice - SA detected bogosity in this message, though differently than a > human would (If I had gotten this message I would have been rolling on > the floor laughing, it was so obviously bogus. First off it's worded in > a strange way, fails to provide the usual bugtraq reference or technical > description of the vulnerability, and more importantly, instead of > providing a link to updated packages on a redhat.com server,
Instead of laughing at it, has anyone actually LOOKED at what this would install on a redhat system? As new users come to linux in droves in the coming years we will have to expect more of these social engineering scams and some of these attempts in the windows world are pretty sophisticated and WORK far more frequently than you might imagine. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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