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Date:      Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:11:02 +0900
From:      Sangwoo Shim <ssw@neo.redjade.org>
To:        David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
Cc:        www@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [Mailman] Someone modifies From: field of mail and send them to lists.
Message-ID:  <20040227001102.GA8051@neo.redjade.org>
In-Reply-To: <200402251753.i1PHrfni015025@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
References:  <20040225080105.GA635@neo.redjade.org> <200402251753.i1PHrfni015025@bunrab.catwhisker.org>

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On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 09:53:41AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
> >Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:01:05 +0900
> >From: Sangwoo Shim <ssw@neo.redjade.org>
> >To: mailman@freebsd.org
> >Cc: ceri@freebsd.org
> >Cc: www@freebsd.org
> >Subject: [Mailman] 
> >Sender: owner-mailman@freebsd.org
> 
> >Recently I've received couple of "Your message to freebsd-foobar awaits
> >moderator approval" messages....
> 
> Please also note that empirical evidence to date suggests that there
> exist some forms of worm/viruses/... that create both sender and
> recipient addresses baased on patterns seens in existing email addresses
> on the infected machine.  [I am, for example, seeing quite a few

I think this is unlikely because my mailbox doesn't know about freebsd-sparc64@,
freebsd-test@, and something like that at all. Moreover, I don't have any
MS W*indows box here. All my box runs FreeBSD even for desktop.
Yes, FreeBSD rocks. ;-) Anyway, thanks for your kind advice.



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