[DeTomaso] creepy

[Björn Carlsson]

Spam is a serious problem.
It's even worse when phishing and malicious links gets involved.

As mentioned, the archives is a great way of getting access to live and vivid email accounts. 
You can sell these for a few cents each, you know!  ;-)

Most often it is a single computer that sends out spam/virus like this.
The list administrator should be able to look at the header file and investigate, not always but often, the sender.
Especially since this is an member ship list (you can't send if you are not "on" the list, right?)

/BC


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Från: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] För Charles McCall
Skickat: den 6 februari 2008 10:42
Till: 'Clark Family'; detomaso at realbig.com
Ämne: Re: [DeTomaso] creepy

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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