Oops that was Michael that was correct, once again open mouth insert foot...
James
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-admin_at_lists.freeswan.org
> [mailto:users-admin_at_lists.freeswan.org]On Behalf Of Michael
> H. Warfield
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 1:49 PM
> To: Nate Carlson
> Cc: James Selph; 'Linux-IPSEC users mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [Users] Virus in Mailinglist
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:24:20AM -0500, Nate Carlson wrote:
> > On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, James Selph wrote:
> > > The really funny thing is that every one of these auto
> responses is
> > > coming from a windows machines... How much does the radio ad say
> > > windows certified engineers are making now? Obviously not
> enough to
> > > correct these types of problems ;^)
>
> > Yup.. good 'ol Mimedefang (sendmail plugin) just sends the
> result back to
> > the _person_ who sent the virus.. works much better. :)
>
> Really? That's a really cute trick considering that Klez.*,
> amongst others, are forging the return addresses. How does
> it determine
> who "the _person_ who sent the virus" was?
>
> I've been receiving stacks of virus notices about messages I
> never sent to individuals I have never corresponded with. (Rumor has
> it that Klez.H is using some sort of spam list to forge from
> addresses).
>
> Clue, people... The virus writers know about virus scanners
> sending messages back to the return addresses. Great fun to
> annoy lots
> of clueless lusers. Notices back to the source of the
> message should be
> disabled on virus scanners. It's pointless anymore.
>
> >
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> 1981 |
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