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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