Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:40:01 +0100 From: "Remko Lodder" <remko@elvandar.org> To: "Clifton Royston" <cliftonr@tikitechnologies.com>, <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: [Freebsd-hackers] Yes, send-pr results in virus emails Message-ID: <20040127152254.9D7672B4D8D@mail.evilcoder.org> In-Reply-To: <20040127133155.6FCD816@mail.elvandar.org>
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right, and perhaps the pr stuff is on a archive somewhere, since it gets forwarded to freebsd-bugs for example, then gets fetched by a virus/worm or something and you still get slained by it, What i try to say is that there are many ways in which your mail address might be snooped, and since there are quite a lot of users on this list, and there shall always be an infected machine, makes it quite hard to track all those persons down, personally i dont think there is that much time, cheers -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: freebsd-hackers-bounces@lists.elvandar.org [mailto:freebsd-hackers-bounces@lists.elvandar.org]Namens Clifton Royston Verzonden: dinsdag 27 januari 2004 0:58 Aan: hackers@freebsd.org Onderwerp: [Freebsd-hackers] Yes, send-pr results in virus emails OK, on January 23 I sent in a PR from a development-only machine using the send-pr command. This machine happens to actually receive mail because I'm testing mail server software on it, but I have never used it to send mail, and I have never gotten mail on that machine other than via sending test messages to myself. So this address did *not* exist in anybody's address book before I sent a PR from it, OK? About 8 minutes after the PR acknowledgment from GNATS I got the first virus response of Worm/Gibe.F, originating from cpe-138-217-67-84.vic.bigpond.net.au [138.217.67.84]. I've totalled 20 virus emails in the past few days, from around the world. Not horrendous, but annoying and "bad press". I don't think there need be any more doubt that PRs are being forwarded to virus-infected clients. I have no idea who to take this up with, but I would really appreciate it if somebody could track these folks down and unsubscribe them until they can get their machines cleaned up. Rather than harass all the readers with the list, I've compiled one and I'll send it to an appropriate administrator for the PR list when I find one. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- cliftonr@tikitechnologies.com Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind of cow? Well we can do it. We know how. If you never did, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good. -- Dr. Seuss _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ Freebsd-hackers mailing list Freebsd-hackers@lists.elvandar.org http://lists.elvandar.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers
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