[rollei_list] Re: Have the hackers found this list?


----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Williams" <dwilli10@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 7:40 AM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Have the hackers found this list?


At 09:29 AM 6/23/2005, you wrote:
On the old RUG digest a string of nonsense letters like this indicated
a virus sent to the list. I thought this was impossible with Freelist.
What happened?

Bob Marvin

On Thursday, June 23, 2005, at 12:02 AM, Peter K ALLEGEDLY wrote:

WWVzLCBidXQgdGhlcmUgYXJlIFJvbGxlaSBTdGFuZGFyZCwgTmV3IFN0YW5kYXJkLCBNWC1

This is the new trend, an attempt to prevent spam filters from
picking up messages that have a lot of random text in them.

There is no way to find out how any name got on the list, it could
have been obtained and sold in bulk some time ago. I have been on
line for a long time and apparently my name is on many spam lists. I
don't know a solution, even Congress can't figure out a way to stop
it because the spammers rent an email address, replace it with a
forged "from" address, and move on.

I used to try to report all spam to the right agencies, but now I
just delete them. My system puts 95% of them in a junk mail box,
which I scan quickly to see if there are any good short messages,
then I just empty them as a batch. Takes 1 minute. I average 30-50
each day, more on weekends.

DAW



Don Williams
La Jolla, CA

This isn't random text, its part of a binary file, perhaps part of a worm or virus. The full header indicates it was passed by the anti-virus at Freelists. It also evidently got by the anti-virus at Earthlink (my ISP) and the anti-virus on this machine. I will investigate this further.


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