[softwarelist] Re: A Nastie in the system

On 9 Mar, David Pilling wrote:

>> I am getting spam sent to my OvPro email address.

[snip]
> 
> Much more serious is if the mail list is being used to send spam. The
> old list, run by Neil Spellings company was turned off yesterday. I
> gather from the header that the spam came from that source.
> 
> So to some extent the problem is now solved because the old list is no
> longer running. However I doubt the spam came directly through the list.
> I didn't get a copy.
> 
> If anyone sees something similar, let me know and I'll follow up the
> matter.
> 
[snip]
> 
I've certainly spotted a number of these in my ISP's spam folder when 
I've been checking for false positives.

Just because the From: address belongs to the old list doesn't 
necessarily mean the spam is originating from one of Neil's PC's. If 
they are coming from an infected PC, the From: address could be 
hijacked from either an address book or the header of an email stored 
on the affected PC.

It is quite possible that the trojaned (is there such a word?) PC 
which may turn out to be the source does belong to a Windows using 
list member. I would strongly suggest that any list member using a PC 
keeps Anti Virus and Anti Spyware software up to date and runs regular 
checks on their systems.
-- 
Brian Howlett
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I'm not telling you who I work for - in any case, there's no way 
anything posted (or mailed!) by me can be attributed to them....

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