From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 18 10:30:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BEA916A4CE for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 10:30:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.elvandar.org (cust.94.120.adsl.cistron.nl [195.64.94.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 251CF43D3F for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 10:29:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from remko@elvandar.org) Received: from [10.0.3.124] (aragorn.lan.elvandar.intranet [10.0.3.124]) by mail.elvandar.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41523106885; Tue, 18 May 2004 19:28:59 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <40AA47DB.9030103@elvandar.org> Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 19:28:59 +0200 From: Remko Lodder X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: epilogue@allstream.net References: <20040518132516.79edff79@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20040518132516.79edff79@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at elvandar.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: **heads-up** : likely spam using [name]@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 17:30:06 -0000 Dude, epilogue@allstream.net wrote: > http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/ is a valid URL, because yar is indeed a > committer. > > this said, something (read: mailer-daemon error) tells me that > yar's e-mail below (bottom) is not quite right. haven't bothered to open > the attachement and don't really see the point, given the virus comment in > the bounce reply. > > perhaps this is already old hat. perhaps it is just my mistake. > nevertheless, i thought that you might appreciate a heads-up that some > spammer(s) may now be highjacking freebsd.org addresses in an attempt to > get us to open their attachments. > > > cheers, > epi This happends all the time, with @freebsd.org addresses, @symantec.com adresses, with @cisco.com adresses , even with @elvandar.org adresses, more strict, my personal adres is used often... Virusses are "getting" other's userinformation now, and use that to try and infect people like us. Since some of us (me oa) know that this is a virus, we don't open it. But some people might get misled by it. The goal of the writer had been achieved then. Try to delete them and update your virusscanner regularly and you would be fine ;-) -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene