RE: [sniffer] Joe Jobs...
That brings a question up...why do some/many/most postmasters feel that it is so important to notify senders of a virus to a spoofed email address? Also, I have yet to see a legitimate email that contained a virus..so why not turn the notification off all together? Just curious... Kevin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 11:30 AM To: sniffer@sortmonster.com Subject: [sniffer] Joe Jobs... Hello Sniffer Folks, Please be aware that there are several spam and possibly virus (other malware?) campaigns being transmitted with my madscientist address and possibly other addresses from our company in the From: headers and SMTP envelope. Though this has happened in the past at low levels, I have noted recently a very high level of bounces and warnings returning to me (erroneously) from systems that claim they have received viruses and spam from my address. I suspect that this might have been triggered by recent press activity, - especially a Washington Post article which included my email address without modification. If you receive any of these messages, please treat them as the spam/malware that they are and ignore the source. I have verified that we are not sending any such messages ( unintentionally) from any of our systems. Thanks, _M Pete McNeil (Madscientist) President, MicroNeil Research Corporation Chief SortMonster (www.sortmonster.com) Chief Scientist (www.armresearch.com) This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/Help.html This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/Help.html
RE: [sniffer] Joe Jobs...
Generally because they don't know any better. Backscatter just makes the problems 10 times worse. -Jay -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Stanford Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 1:11 PM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: RE: [sniffer] Joe Jobs... That brings a question up...why do some/many/most postmasters feel that it is so important to notify senders of a virus to a spoofed email address? Also, I have yet to see a legitimate email that contained a virus..so why not turn the notification off all together? Just curious... Kevin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 11:30 AM To: sniffer@sortmonster.com Subject: [sniffer] Joe Jobs... Hello Sniffer Folks, Please be aware that there are several spam and possibly virus (other malware?) campaigns being transmitted with my madscientist address and possibly other addresses from our company in the From: headers and SMTP envelope. Though this has happened in the past at low levels, I have noted recently a very high level of bounces and warnings returning to me (erroneously) from systems that claim they have received viruses and spam from my address. I suspect that this might have been triggered by recent press activity, - especially a Washington Post article which included my email address without modification. If you receive any of these messages, please treat them as the spam/malware that they are and ignore the source. I have verified that we are not sending any such messages ( unintentionally) from any of our systems. Thanks, _M Pete McNeil (Madscientist) President, MicroNeil Research Corporation Chief SortMonster (www.sortmonster.com) Chief Scientist (www.armresearch.com) This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/Help.html This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/Help.html This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/Help.html
RE: [sniffer] Joe Jobs...
Because the vendors are so lame as to have that enabled by default. John T eServices For You -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Stanford Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 10:11 AM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: RE: [sniffer] Joe Jobs... That brings a question up...why do some/many/most postmasters feel that it is so important to notify senders of a virus to a spoofed email address? Also, I have yet to see a legitimate email that contained a virus..so why not turn the notification off all together? Just curious... Kevin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 11:30 AM To: sniffer@sortmonster.com Subject: [sniffer] Joe Jobs... Hello Sniffer Folks, Please be aware that there are several spam and possibly virus (other malware?) campaigns being transmitted with my madscientist address and possibly other addresses from our company in the From: headers and SMTP envelope. Though this has happened in the past at low levels, I have noted recently a very high level of bounces and warnings returning to me (erroneously) from systems that claim they have received viruses and spam from my address. I suspect that this might have been triggered by recent press activity, - especially a Washington Post article which included my email address without modification. If you receive any of these messages, please treat them as the spam/malware that they are and ignore the source. I have verified that we are not sending any such messages ( unintentionally) from any of our systems. Thanks, _M Pete McNeil (Madscientist) President, MicroNeil Research Corporation Chief SortMonster (www.sortmonster.com) Chief Scientist (www.armresearch.com) This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/Help.html This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/Help.html This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/Help.html
