----- Original Message ----- From: "Johan Vromans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:07 PM Subject: [TeX-music] Re: Virus from Werner??
> Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Has anyone else then me received an email containing > > an attachment that looks very much like a virus and > > "Werner Icking" as the sender? Either someone has a very > > morbid sence of humor or GMD have been attacked by some > > virus that uses all accounts it can find. Watch out! > > For what it is worth, I often get bounces from emails (containing > viruses) that pretend having been sent by me. > What worries me is that these are often sent to people I know via > mailing lists, and have subjects that relate to items discussed on > these mailing lists. Scary. And I'm not even running Windows... Yeah, I just received such a complaint from my friend Jos (who wrote the MIDI files of my "salon pieces"). AFAIK, all messages sent on this list are posted on the Web (see for example http://sunsite.dk/pipermail/tex-music/2001-May.txt ), and messages posted on the former gmd site are accessible in a similar way (see for example http://www.gmd.de/Mail/mutex-archive/1519.html ) Then a robot can easily find: 1: adresses to whom it can send the virus. 2: adresses in the "From:" field of these pages, in order to stick these adresses in the "From:" field along with the virus. 3: a reasonnable message to stick into the body of the message. FYI, disguising the "From:" field of a mail isn't very difficult. Disguising the "headers" is more difficult. Those who have received the "Snowwhite" virus will understand what I mean. Because of such practices, I have already suggested disguising our names on the web pages of our Archive, but it seems everybody here enjoys deleting heaps of virusses and spam. (let's find something more subtle than [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I know Werner strongly disagreed with this, but IMHO things have changed now. I welcome your comments, Regards, Jean-Pierre Coulon E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur Département FRESNEL, groupe ILGA BP 4229 06304 NICE Cedex 4 Tel: (33) {0}4 92 00 31 58 Fax: (33) {0}4 92 00 31 38 _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
