[Freebsd-hackers] Yes, send-pr results in virus emails

[Remko Lodder]

right,

and perhaps the pr stuff is on a archive somewhere, since it gets forwarded
to
freebsd-bugs for example, then gets fetched by a virus/worm or something
and you still get slained by it,

What i try to say is that there are many ways in which your mail address
might be
snooped, and since there are quite a lot of users on this list, and there
shall
always be an infected machine, makes it quite hard to track all those
persons down,
personally i dont think there is that much time,

cheers

--

Kind regards,

Remko Lodder
Elvandar.org/DSINet.org
www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the
hackerscene

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: freebsd-hackers-bounces at lists.elvandar.org
[mailto:freebsd-hackers-bounces at lists.elvandar.org]Namens Clifton
Royston
Verzonden: dinsdag 27 januari 2004 0:58
Aan: hackers at freebsd.org
Onderwerp: [Freebsd-hackers] Yes, send-pr results in virus emails


  OK, on January 23 I sent in a PR from a development-only machine
using the send-pr command.  This machine happens to actually receive
mail because I'm testing mail server software on it, but I have never
used it to send mail, and I have never gotten mail on that machine
other than via sending test messages to myself.  So this address did
*not* exist in anybody's address book before I sent a PR from it, OK?

  About 8 minutes after the PR acknowledgment from GNATS I got the
first virus response of Worm/Gibe.F, originating from
cpe-138-217-67-84.vic.bigpond.net.au [138.217.67.84].  I've totalled 20
virus emails in the past few days, from around the world.  Not
horrendous, but annoying and "bad press".

  I don't think there need be any more doubt that PRs are being
forwarded to virus-infected clients.  I have no idea who to take this
up with, but I would really appreciate it if somebody could track
these folks down and unsubscribe them until they can get their
machines cleaned up.  Rather than harass all the readers with the
list, I've compiled one and I'll send it to an appropriate
administrator for the PR list when I find one.

  -- Clifton

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