You know, the old "mailer-daemon" approach to sending malware has been around for a while -- I have gotten a lot of them -- but it's funny it should have come to her purportedly from "rednote support" -- quite hilarious... Also, I've gotten virus mail on windows that spread by picking a random file name from a person's "My Documents" folder and emailing it with a little request to give feedback -- the things that raised a red flag about this were the double extension of the attached file, and also the fact that the request was in very poor English. The thing that annoyed me most about windows when I moved to it was the hiding of extensions -- and not only the folder option that hid extensions of known file types, but also the added suppression of certain file types marked with "NEVERSHOWEXT" in the registry. I got bitten by that -- and I run pretty cautiously, if that's possible on windows -- and have been furious at windows since, for trying to be simple for the non-techies, powerful for the legitimate software developers, and secure -- and you can't really do all three very easily. Anyway, I can't wait to get back on linux. More on that in the next post... --le Take care. --le ----- Original Message ----- From: "david poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 10:09 AM Subject: Re: Yeah, Sure I'd love to see this mall ware. Johnnie Apple Seed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>; <blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com>; <ma-linux at rednote.net> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 8:46 AM Subject: Yeah, Sure 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. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
