Got some malware this morning that just made me laugh. I've not seen one like this before and just wanted to share it. Of course, there's undoubtedly a malicious payload. In my situation it's funny because I am "rednote.net," and I am "the rednote support team," and Chief Cook, and Bottle Washer, etc. From: "Automatic Email Delivery Software" <MAILER-DAEMON@xxxxxxxxxxx> [-- Attachment #1 --] [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.4K --] Dear user janina at rednote.net, mail server administrator of rednote.net would like to inform you Your account was used to send a large amount of unsolicited commercial email messages during this week. Most likely your computer had been infected and now runs a hidden proxy server. Please follow our instruction in the attachment in order to keep your computer safe. Best regards, rednote.net support team. [-- Attachment #2: text.zip --] [-- Type: application/octet-stream, Encoding: base64, Size: 38K --] -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.
