On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 16:09:07 -0400, Trevor Woerner <mips082-nospam@vtnet.ca> wrote: >I appreciate microsoft *.exe updates by email just as much as the next >guy, however... > >I create email aliases for the different mailing lists I join. I > noticed that I've been receiving a fair amount of spam to the email > address I setup for this list. I figured it was because I posted > something in the past, so I unsubscribed my old email address, created > a new one, and re-subscribed. > >Without having made any postings since the change, I have just received >spam to the new address I've setup for this list, which means someone >has access to the membership list. Any chance this could be looked into >and turned off? Not necessarily. This particular virus hunts around for anything that looks like an email address and spams it. My logs show a couple of these virus loads from the list itself, linux-mips.org does not filter out this virus. Oct 4 02:21:19 reject: header Content-Type: application/x-msdownload; name="Upgrade53.exe" from mail.linux-mips.org[62.254.210.162]; from=<linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org>
