Re: debianppc list and sven virus
On (26/11/03 13:39), Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > On (21/11/03 19:20), Mick Weiss wrote:
> > > I think that sombody's box on the debianppc mailing list has the Sven virus.
> > > After subscribing, I get 100+ e-mails that say that they are from Microsoft.
> > >
> > > I talked to some people at the local linux user group and thats what they
> > > told me.
> > >
> > > Anyone else have this problem?
> > >
> > > If this is indeed the case, and someone happens to be running windows ---
> > > please use an anti-virus :o) pleeeeeez Any more mail and I will cringe.
> > This has been an issue for some months and if you could check the
> > archive (which appears to be down still) you would see copious posts on
> > the problem and various ways of dealing with it.
> >
> > It appears that the debian lists are being harvested for addresses and
> > if you post to any of them, you are a target.
>
> The reason for this is simple: any and all posts to Debian mailing lists are
> available in the open. Reports sent to the BTS are also posted in raw form.
> This makes it WAY too easy for people's e-mail addresses to be harvested!
>
> IMHO, Debian Project leaders ought to be wisen up on the basics of network
> security and spam prevention.
>
> > FWIW I use mailfilter in conjunction with fetchmail to remove most of
> > the swen stuff before download. Attached is a copy of my mailfilterrc.
>
> Nice, but this really ought to be implemented on the mailing list host, not by
> each and every mailing list subscriber.
Good idea. A number of solutions were discussed on debian-user but
I can't recall anyone suggesting this. Perhaps a note to the list
meister would be in order?
Regards
Clive
>
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