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[Paul Schmehl]

--On Friday, August 17, 2007 16:15:14 +0200 Nikola Lecic <nlecic at EUnet.yu> 
wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:09:15 -0400
> "Hakan K" <dominor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Nikola,
>>
>> Do not you think that email should be filtered..?
>> Or at least some one should warn the others for the exe link..
>
Not too many FreeBSD users are going to be worried about clicking on .exe 
files.  In fact, I routinely fetch these files and submit them to 
Virustotal.com.  I doubt you can get them to run on FreeBSD.  :-)

> This is public and open list and it's impossible to filter everything.
>
> I asked you why you replied directly to the spammer. That's extremely
> bad practice, please stop doing it.
>
In general that's true, but these are spams.  They're emails sent by the 
Storm worm botnet to entice people to install a trojan horse on their shiny 
new Winblows boxes.  Replying to them does nothing of any consequence 
except perhaps irritate the recipient, who had nothing to do with the email 
being sent in the first place.

-- 
Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/