[iyonix-support] Re: Spam infiltration
- From: Chris Evans <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:29:16 +0100 (BST)
On Wed 26 Jul, Christopher wrote:
>
> In message <4e4ca20f6dMartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Martin
> wrote:
>
> > In article <c2921b4c4e.harriet@xxxxxxxxxx>,
> > Harriet Bazley <iyonix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I've just received six spams (three yesterday and another three today)
> > > to the address that I only use for this mailing-list, and which should
> > > not be present in any Windows-user's address book; have we been
> > > infiltrated? :-(
> >
> > I certainly had a strange one in reply to a post of mine today - it was
> > from 'van der Waal Zeefdruk BV <hans at vanderwaal.nl>' and it was
> > (presumably) in Dutch, and I could make little sense of it.
> > It had X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) in the headers.
>
> >From my (terrible) Dutch I think he says he is on
> vacation until 4 August and will be closed for business.
> I got this in 'response' to my question about OfficeJet
> 6210 printer. Very strange - are the spammers getting
> creative?
No hans at vanderwaal.nl seems to be a subscriber to the list, and set up an
auto response whilst on holiday.
Unfortunatly any auto response system needs really to be set up to omit
mailing lists, fortunatly his auto response seems to only the first email
from particular addresses otherwise all hell can breakout if two members of
a mailing list have auto responses to all emails as a loop is set up.
Going back to Harriet original posting, it seems the spam wasn't sent to the
list but direct to the email address she uses solely for the mailing list,
so it appears that via most likely a compromised PC all? the address used to
post to this mailing list have been harvested by a spammer:-(
Chris Evans
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