On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Paul Thomas wrote: > > On 19/09/2003 07:17 Tomasz Myrta wrote: > > Hi > > Recently I receive massive mail attack. This attack comes from some > > postgresql mailing list users. All send-to adresses are taken from users > > mailboxes which contain postgresql posts. Currently I found two kinds of > > viruses: > > 1. Empty post with "Undelivered message to..." body > > 2. Microsoft "Dear Customer... " based on www.microsoft.com design. > > Both mails contains some .exe attachement. > > > > Regards, > > Tomasz Myrta > > So far I've had nearly 150 of these in the last 12 hours or so. Somebody > on these lists has a lot of explaining to do! Fortunately my spam filters > are up to scratch and I run Linux :) Others may not be so lucky.
Keep in mind, if you check the headers on the emails you'll see that they are forged. I've been getting about 20 emails a day telling me a message I know I didn't send was infected with a virus. I got 432 last night inbound, some with names forged from this list, others from names unknown. But I don't think it's not the folks on this list, I think it's a windows worm that looks in people's email, harvests names at random, and forged email based on it. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
