[DeTomaso] creepy

Charles McCall charlesmccall at gmail.com
Wed Feb 6 04:41:44 EST 2008


The spambot armies are doing battle.  This is a man-in-the-middle style
attack from scraped Google mailing list archive email addresses.

The 'From' field is easily spoofed on email from zombie spamming computers
to lull the recipient into opening an attachment that can take over your
machine if you don't have virus protection (and open it).

Time to anonomize email addresses in the archives that let search engines
index?
***I'm not sure if the e-mail addresses came from the archives. I tend to
agree with the opinion of someone last week that said that someone on the
list is infected with a virus that uses their address book to send out spam.


Of course we're safe because the Forums software strips attachments to
protect us from this very problem, but it is kind of weird. I'm not a
computer expert, but I'm not really sure how a list administrator could
prevent this either... I think that the solution is for everyone to run a
virus check on their computer so that the "guilty party" gets healthy again
and stops spamming us! 

Of course, all that is just a theory of course...




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