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Date:      Wed, 03 Mar 2004 14:08:16 +1000
From:      Mark Sergeant <msergeant@snsonline.net>
To:        Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Notify about your e-mail account utilization.
Message-ID:  <1078286896.1303.5.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <4045593F.9040908@pacific.net.sg>
References:  <atljejygcfwdxgaveht@freebsd.org> <4045593F.9040908@pacific.net.sg>

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These are all generated on the fly, a similiar one is targeting redhat's
mailing lists. Pretty easy to have a virus pick a random (from a list)
username@hostname then also pick a random subset of text for the body
(from a list), attach the file and send it off. It would be pretty
trivial to write something like this in any language.

Cheers,

Mark


On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 14:04, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
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> isn't this a virus?
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> It looks to me as somebody deliberately does this manually.
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> I just cannot believe that viruses are meanwhile so good that the=20
> message look this real.
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> I deleted the attachment to avoid further spreading.
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> Erich
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> administration@freebsd.org wrote:
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> > Hello user  of Freebsd.org e-mail  server,
> >=20
> > Our main mailing server will be temporary  unavaible  for  next two day=
s,=20
> > to continue receiving  mail  in these  days you  have  to configure our=
 free
> > auto-forwarding service.
> >=20
> > For more information  see  the attached  file.
> >=20
> > Have a good day,
> >    The  Freebsd.org team                                 http://www.fre=
ebsd.org
> >=20
> >=20
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------=
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> >=20
> > _______________________________________________
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> > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current
> > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.o=
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Mark Sergeant <msergeant@snsonline.net>
SNSOnline Technical Services

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