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Re: ot: we've been scraped



On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:26:34 -0400
Steve Pacenka <s.pacenka@verizon.net> wrote:

> Fellow Sparcers,
> 
> I've gotten about 70 virus/worms today of the current Wintel variety. 
> My Sparcs w/Debian are quite immune, fortunately.
> 
> One of the messages seems legit, from a filter than identified the
> senders of identical messages instead of passing on the payload.  It
> contained lots of familiar IDs from the Debian Sparc list.  My address
> used for Debian email lists was in there as a sender -- this virus/worm
> is a forger of sender addresses.  The virus/worms do not seem to be
> traveling through the Debian mailing lists since my procmail is leaving
> all of them in the inbox.
> 
> Someone who reads this list may have done so from a Windows machine, and
> had their web cache or email mailboxes scraped when they were infected.
> 
> So what's a Wintel user doing reading debian-sparc?  It's time to stop
> reading and trade in that hardware and dying OS for something like a U10
> or U60 with Linux ..  
> 
> -- SP
> 
> 
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-- 
Antonello <etn@libero.it>



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