-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 der Mouse wrote: <SNIP!> > Over the last week or so, Google (in the form of Google Groups) has > started spamming me. I got subscribed to some Google Groups list > without even so much as seeing anything I recognized as a subscription > confirmation. <SNIP!>
I have been seeing this behavior for will over a year now, maybe even two or more. Yahoo Groups is even worse than Google Groups. I have seen a couple of different variations of the problem. 1) Some moron subscribes a mailing list (Security Focus' lists seem to be an especial problem) to the group. Then, when you post to the mail list, you either get a bounce (saying you are not authorized to post to the group), or you get automatically subscribed to the group. 2) Some malware propagator sets up a group that apparently does not require you to confirm. It is an apparent social engineering attack to try to get you to visit the group so they can drop malware on your box during the visit. I have seen at least a dozen of these from both Yahoo and Google in recent months. My $0.02 worth! [US$, not CA$ ;-) !] Jon - -- Jon R. Kibler Chief Technical Officer Advanced Systems Engineering Technology, Inc. Charleston, SC USA o: 843-849-8214 c: 843-224-2494 s: 843-564-4224 http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonrkibler My PGP Fingerprint is: BAA2 1F2C 5543 5D25 4636 A392 515C 5045 CF39 4253 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknBq10ACgkQUVxQRc85QlNxLgCdFsW3dlwlzNekMoytIc4YEMcX Vg0AoIjE94LB4/90UkVogZPFzr/kR1W/ =yQSA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ================================================== Filtered by: TRUSTEM.COM's Email Filtering Service http://www.trustem.com/ No Spam. No Viruses. Just Good Clean Email.
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