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quoted 6 lines Anyone know this person?

> Anyone know this person? > I got a bounced email with my email addressed forged as the sender, with > a movie0045.pif attached. It was addressed to Melissa Galicia, whom I do > not know. > Looks like someone's machine is infected and being used to relay > infected spam.

You don't say! I've never heard of such a thing! Someone better alert the media. I bet this problem is so big... Hold on, I'm going to email you a WICKED SCREENSAVER. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

Gee, I hope you aren't so you busy trying to look smart that you are missing that fact that your machine is infected? Andrew Hime wrote:

quoted 16 lines Anyone know this person?

> > Anyone know this person? > > I got a bounced email with my email addressed forged as the sender, with > > a movie0045.pif attached. It was addressed to Melissa Galicia, whom I do > > not know. > > Looks like someone's machine is infected and being used to relay > > infected spam. > > You don't say! I've never heard of such a thing! > > Someone better alert the media. I bet this problem is so big... > > Hold on, I'm going to email you a WICKED SCREENSAVER. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

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quoted 8 lines Anyone know this person?

> Anyone know this person? > I got a bounced email with my email addressed forged as the sender, with > a movie0045.pif attached. It was addressed to Melissa Galicia, whom I do > not know. > Looks like someone's machine is infected and being used to relay > infected spam. > cheers > Lisa b

SoBig.F Worm aftershocks. I've received a few of those emails, both bounced and directed, with worm attachments, addressed *from* [idm] list members. The members are not sending the worm. The worm has infected a computer, maybe theirs and maybe someone else's who got them in their address book, and the worm is propagating the emails under that addy...and many, many others. I'm getting a dozen or more a day: 101 in the past 7 days. I've received 59 Nigerian Scams in the same time span. Make that 102 Worms in the past 7 days: there's another, just in. seek np: Carsten Jost - 'You Don't Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows' (Ladomat) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

quoted 11 lines SoBig.F Worm aftershocks. I've received a few of

> SoBig.F Worm aftershocks. I've received a few of > those emails, both bounced and > directed, with worm attachments, addressed *from* > [idm] list members. The members > are not sending the worm. The worm has infected a > computer, maybe theirs and maybe > someone else's who got them in their address book, > and the worm is propagating the > emails under that addy...and many, many others. I'm > getting a dozen or more a day: > 101 in the past 7 days.

Another reason that the sobig virus seems to be finding _so many_ emails to forge is that it also harvests email addressses from cached pages on the infected pc. Combine that with the fact that half of the stupid mail servers around the world will send messages back to forged senders stating that their email was not delivered because it had a virus, and the legions of people emailing telling us to stop using outlook/outlook express, you have quite a flow of unwanted crap coming into your inbox. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org