Re: Strange undeliverable mail.. for a message I did not send
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 12:43:40PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 01:36:30PM +0100, Agust?n Mart?n Domingo wrote:
> > Xavier Roche wrote:
> > >Probably a virus, with forged from: and envelope data. There is nothing
> > >really efficient to do, except convincing users NOT to use Outlook and
> > >other similar mass-destruction mailers.
> >
> > What really sounds strange to me is that is not a common virus, it has
> > emulated a message using two 'from' and 'to' forged Debian addresses
> > (mine and Luca's), and then has sent a message about a supposed
> > undeliverable mail forging the Debian postmaster address (I highly doubt
> > the postmaster auto-replier send html messages).
>
> I think it's quite a common virus; I've been getting it for months, and
> I believe not just "from" postmaster@debian.org. Doesn't seem like a
> Debian development issue to me.
[snip]
As far as viruses go, this one isn't too bad... I've seen a virus that
quotes a mailing message in its entirety, *and* forges source/dest
addresses so that most mail filters will fail to catch it.
T
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