At 12:30 PM 3/8/2006, Jeff Griffiths wrote:
Chris Wagner wrote:
Did anyone else also just receive a boat load of old messages from the list?
I've got about 25 and more coming. They go back to October. And the really
funny thing about it is they're all from threads I participated in. I
checked out the headers and they're originating from mail.mytravelweb.net
and involve somebody [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's one of the headers.
...
Thanks for reporting this. Annoying, isn't it? Internally we have blocked
this traffic but I suspect some lot of users of the list are still getting
messages because their email addresses are in the headers of the original
messages. If you have gotten any of these messages *from* ActiveState's
servers since around 9PM last night, please let me know right away and
attach the full headers to your email.
Personally, I'm filtering all email with 'hescobar' in the To or CC
fields; this seems to do the trick. The running theory we have is that
this is the work of a bot-net of some sort.
The baffling thing is that while the header forging seems to be relatively
sophisticated, it is still really easy to filter these messages due to the
fact that they all have the same word / phrase in the To / CC header.
A script gone awry perhaps?
I once (OK twice:) brought down a server by doing this ">>" instead of this
">", so these things do happen.
ms
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