Re: [DMCForum] Re: Message for "fenris(at)delorean.co.uk"

["jordan rubin" <nuttenschleuder@xxxxxxxxx>]

I run linux too, the same reason my server weathered
the virus storm last month.  I get a gazillion of em
every day.  but they dont seem to know the root
password. too bad.

jordan 11613




--- Jan van de Wouw <delorean@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Martin wrote:
> 
> > Someone has set their e-mail wrongly when signing
> up to Yahoo to post to
> > both DML and DMCforum. The offending address is
> > "fenris(at)delorean.co.uk" Could you please change
> it? Not only is it
> > wrong (anything "at" delorean.co.uk comes to me -
> I own the domain) but
> > I've had about 200 bounce messages this morning
> alone from viruses
> > you've been sending out.
> 
> Then Rich wrote:
> 
> > I got an email from that guy today asking about
> stainless frames.
> > He's sending out viruses? Hm. I'm glad I run
> Linux. Not that it's
> > virus-proof. It's just that folks don't usually
> waste time writing
> > viruses for Linux.
> 
> I'm guess ing there is no-one who did use this
> address.
> There are several known virusses that take (pieces
> of) existing
> emails or word-files and use them as body-text when
> spreading.
> Quite a lot of them also use a "built" email-address
> as sender;
> take the first bit of an address and the last bit
> from another
> address out of the addressbook... This way tracing
> and/or stopping
> will be VERY difficult...
> 
> At work we're currently suffering from someone
> spamming with one of our
> (old) domains as sender. We get about 1200 bounces
> per day from that!
> 
> Just ignore them and/or write a filter to ditch them
> immediately...
> 
> And MAN AM I GLAD I USE A MAC! ;-)
> 
> JAN van de Wouw
> 
> Thinking Different...   Using a Mac...
> Living the Dream...   Driving a DeLorean...
> 
> #05141 "Dagger" since Sept. 2000
> --------------------------------
> 
> 


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