Re: netbot'd ?

To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: netbot'd ?
From: John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:08:47 -0600
Message-id: <[🔎] 87wt30gnsw.fsf@toncho.dhh.gt.org>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] eq08ss$go7$1@sea.gmane.org> (Hugo Vanwoerkom's message of "Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:02:18 -0600")
References: <[🔎] eq08ss$go7$1@sea.gmane.org>

Hugo Vanwoerkom writes:
> Anyway I received via my ISP's email server several emails that claimed
> my box sent out thousands of emails over the weekend.

The message was not from your ISP.  

> It asked me to open + execute an attached file for an explanation of how
> to avoid it. (Which I did not)

If you had opened that file under Microsoft Windows your machine soon
_would_ have been sending out thousands of spams.  It was a trojan and the
message a trick to try to get you to open it.
-- 
John Hasler

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- netbot'd ?
  - From: Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>

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