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Re: Virus emails from nanog mail list
- From: Stephen J. Wilcox
- Date: Tue Aug 19 19:52:38 2003
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, David Diaz wrote:
>
> Spam may be off topic but in this case relevant. Has anyone else
> noticed bounced emails that appear to have origionated from their
> nanog email boxes and contain viruses?
>
> Obviously some bot has gone threw the nanog list and is now forging
> headers such that they appear to come from those addresses, and they
> are attaching viruses.
not nanog nor sobig but i have recently been receiving emails with viruses to
some very obscure and old email addresses of mine, almost certainly harvested
from some equally obscure old site i have
quite worrying, my impression was that someone was deliberately spamming viruses
out..
>
> The IP address (which may or may not be accurate) appears to be
> [195.157.87.253].
>
> Has anyone else noticed this recently?
>
> Dave
>
>
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