In the last year or so, and especially in last month, I've been "subscribed" to some clearly fake yahoo groups. e.g.,
> Hello, > > I've added you to my skwft group at Yahoo! Groups, a free, > easy-to-use service. Yahoo! Groups makes it easy to send and receive > group messages, coordinate events, share photos and files, and more. > > > Description of the group: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > fb6ol8fa0a > I'm not a user of yahoo. Despite yahoo's links "report abuse", I don't seem to be able to send in a report. I'm not a yahoo subscriber to my knowledge. Even to attempt a report I have to login via gmail, but in many cases data entry fields are greyed out. (This may be because I don't let all scripts run in my browser. But I surely should not do so if I'm concerned that folk are up to no good. First place I'd put the malware would be in the "report abuse" page if I wanted to really cause trouble.) Traffic from these sites is mostly in Chinese. I suspect they are some sort of effort to build a botnet, for anything from advertising to cyber-warfare. Any suggestions on how to get either yahoo or computer security folk to take an interest in this? It clearly isn't a huge nuisance unless it is opening doors to crooks. JN _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
