I'm guessing that someone with you in their contacts is infected. The virus
is sending as you instead of them, since that makes it less likely that
someone will tell the victim he's infected.
-- Ben Doom
Programmer & General Lackey
Moonbow Software, Inc
: -----Original Message-----
: From: Sandy Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 4:08 PM
: To: CF-Community
: Subject: RE: The tide is high
:
:
: I've gotten a whole lot of bounced messages from people claiming I have a
: virus.
:
: But I don't have the virus. I've checked for the virus both through my
: anti-virus software and also manually using the info from Symantec. In
: addition I have a firewall on my machine that alerts me whenever anything
: trys to come in or go out and has to be manually authorized.
:
: Somehow my name got onto the list and is now making its rounds.
: But getting
: all these bounced messages is driving me crazy (especially since they are
: from domains where I have no contacts that I know of (yale.edu,
: deltacollege.edu, etc.). Its weird.
:
: Sandy
:
: -----Original Message-----
: From: jon hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 2:07 PM
: To: CF-Community
: Subject: Re: The tide is high
:
:
: I'm seeing this as well. My spam folder has 25 emails in the last 2.5
: hours containing the subjects, Wicked Screensaver, Approved, Details,
: Your Application, and Thank You! All with the same content, different
: email addresses, but from the same ip address (156.80.190.78). While
: typing this I just received two from a different ip.
:
: I also got this message today...
:
: Your message dated Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:10:06 --0400 with subject
: "Re: Wicked
: screensaver" has been submitted to the moderator of the ETHICS
: list: Michael
: Blakenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
:
: Apparently some kind of bounce, but seeing as I did a virus scan two
: days ago and don't use Outlook I'm fairly sure I'm not infected. I'm
: scanning now to make sure though. Looks like another Klez...
:
: --
: jon
: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
:
: Tuesday, August 19, 2003, 11:10:58 AM, you wrote:
: DPCc> I've gotten some reports from customers that they are
: getting the same
: DPCc> message every 30 seconds and it seems to be a virus. All of my email
: DPCc> accounts are getting Spam just as they normally would. I'm guessing
: that
: DPCc> maybe the spammers are making up for extra time since the Blackout.
:
: DPCc> Dan Phillips
: DPCc> www.CFXHosting.com
: DPCc> 1-866-239-4678
: DPCc> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:
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:
: DPCc> -----Original Message-----
: DPCc> From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: DPCc> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 11:07 AM
: DPCc> To: CF-Community
: DPCc> Subject: The tide is high
:
:
: DPCc> I'm being deluged with spam at the moment. The lists have
: blocked over
: DPCc> 100 in the last 20 minutes or so and my black hole account has done
: DPCc> likewise. What the hell is going on? Is it be nice to spammers day
: DPCc> today?
:
: DPCc> Michael Dinowitz
: DPCc> Finding technical solutions to the problems you didn't know you had
: yet
:
:
: DPCc>
:
:
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