-=PCTechTalk=- Intelligence on SPAM and viruses
- From: The Keyboard Cowboy <KBCowboy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: !Keyboard Cowboy Group Send <!Keyboard.Cowboy.Group.Send@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:12:13 -0500
>From the Kim Komando List:
--> GOVERNMENT TO ISSUE WARNINGS ON VIRUSES
Internet attacks have become so serious that the government has
started issuing e-mail warnings. Its first warning went out for
MyDoom. You can sign up for the warnings at:
http://www.us-cert.gov/index.html
Additionally, many people have been having problems with mail getting
"stopped" or "jammed" on there ISPs. I had two instances in the past
three days. Investigation determined that a SPAMer was sending a SPAM
message for a resort location (same SPAM message both times). The
header of this SPAM had hundreds and hundreds of e-mail addresses in
it to try to spoof the real sender. There were so many addresses in
the "from" and "To" of the e-mail, that I was unable to get to it even
using programs that read the mail on the server rather than
downloading it (SPAM removal programs, and the "server" function in
Poco). I finally called my ISP and got it deleted, and a filter put
in place at the ISP level. They were able to determine that actual
source as:
mailbox.co.za
I would strongly recommend that you make filters in any SPAM or e-mail
programs you use that block that domain. Have the filters delete the
message from the server.
Regards from the
"Keyboard Cowboy",
,,,,,,,,
=D4=BF=D4=AC
Cincinnati, Ohio
Scottsdale, Arizona
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Saturday, 1/31/2004, @ 1:33:51 PM EST
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It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but
it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
-- Euripedes
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