Hi Lucho and all,
the big difference is between having the address in the mail HEADERs and
having it in the mail TEXT where it could probably end up in the WWW
archives of FreeDOS-devel (depends on whether they automatically protect
email addresses there: Many web mailing list archives do!). For example
Arkady explicitly configured his mail software to do:
"12-xyz-2004 20:55 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Some Fool) wrote ...",
to make spam robots mail to _somebody instead of to somebody.
Quite unnecessary to take the extra risk of quoting unprotected like
[EMAIL PROTECTED], and I understand that Lucho is pissed off about
that. However, I assume that somebody on the FreeDOS lists is infected,
so that somebody has access to the address from the mail header. The only
way for Lucho to stop receiving viruses from that person would be to
delete all files which contain Luchos address from the harddisk of our
anonymous infected list member and never to send mail to freedos lists
again. Or, of course, to make that list member install a proper antivirus
software!!!
It is obviously not feasible to make somebody delete all FreeDOS list
mails from his local harddisk if that somebody does not even know how to
remove viruses :-(. Leaving the list will not rescue you Lucho, sorry.
That said: The ratio of viruses in my spam folder sharply increased from
30-40 % on normal days to 65-80 % this week. I got about 250 NetSky T
since Monday. So everybody update their antivirus software and use a
NetSky removal tool (google for it). NetSky T is quite new, so update
your antivirus software, or it will not detect it. Some examples of free
antivirus software: http://www.free-av.de/ http://www.f-prot.com/
(the DOS version at least :-) http://www.bitdefender.com/ (has a trial version)
http://www.clamav.net/ (open source scanner)...
This NetSky T flood really sucks. I got 6 copies while writing this very
mail alone.
Looks like from somebody on FreeDOS lists in Honkong. Maybe even a spammer
who is eavesdropping on addresses by being on the list; Domains of the
most recent NetSky copies (fake sender addresses, IP unknown, my gateway
does not tell me :-(...) are:
iname.com, 126.com, phreaker.net, ukgateway.net, mos.ru, adcgloballog.com,
sina.com, jennovo.com.hk, softprom.com ...
Eric.
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