Re: Fwd: Your site listed
* Colin Watson (cjwatson@flatline.org.uk) wrote:
> Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> wrote:
> [cc'ed according to mail-followup-to request]
> >On 28 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote:
> >> On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:35:07AM -0500, d wrote:
> >> > HEY, people what is this CARP?
>
> Hmm, seems like the SHOUTING meant a couple of letters were transposed
> there. :)
>
> >> It's called "spam".
>
> [...]
>
> >You think this is bad? I'm getting a message every 2 days or so with a
> >200K+ attachment in base 64 (which I can't read). It says something
> >like:
> >
> > "Hi. How are you? I'm sending this file for your comments.
> > Thanks.
> > See you later."
>
> That's the SirCam virus, which causes its victims to unknowingly send
> mail to addresses harvested from their web cache. Not much you can do
> about it, AFAIK. See e.g.
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/20503.html.
>
Worse than that, it passes on selected file contents, as well.
Let us all be grateful for our own wisdom in our choice of OS. :)
Cam
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