Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:55:09 -0400 (EDT) From: John Mills <johnmills@speakeasy.net> To: Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flood of infected emails Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308191152170.3860-100000@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <002301c36666$b530afb0$04fea8c0@moe>
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Charles, all - On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Charles Howse wrote: > Has anyone besides me been receiving a flood of infected emails? > All the emails have the same subject lines: > > Thank you! > RE: That movie > RE: RE: My Details > RE: RE: My Details > RE: Details > RE: Wicked Screensaver > RE: Approved > RE: Your application > > But are from different users. > I am also getting Mail Delivery Warnings from different postmasters > concerning "my" messages being undeliverable due to full mailboxes. > I am also getting msgs from servers warning me that "my" msg contained a > virus. I am so far only getting the notices that I may have sent infected mail, and my follow-up attempts have all been blocked. I think my address is being used for parts of a flood of virus or spam mail. It seems plausible the harvesting was done from 'freebsd-questions'. John Mills john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu
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