What's up with "Multi-Kulturell = Multi-Kriminell" -- is it address book forged-mailer spam? I got 54 delivery errors for it yesterday -- my anti-virus doesn't say anything, but I want to be sure it's not me sending them out.
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§ ita § - May 17, 2005 4:04:01 am PDT #2957 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Tom Scola - May 17, 2005 4:09:33 am PDT #2958 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
ita: [link]
§ ita § - May 17, 2005 4:11:54 am PDT #2959 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Unnf. So I am infected, huh? Pisser.
::off to update Panda::
(incidentally, and not to encourage anyone, this is a much more interesting use of spam/virus synergies)
Tom Scola - May 17, 2005 4:17:04 am PDT #2960 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
So I am infected, huh?
If you were infected you would be sending spam, not receiving it.
dcp - May 17, 2005 4:17:05 am PDT #2961 of 10003
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Here is the report on it from Symantec: [link]
§ ita § - May 17, 2005 4:21:24 am PDT #2962 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If you were infected you would be sending spam, not receiving it.
I'm receiving delivery errors, not the message itself.
edit: except -- these are not e-mail addresses from my address book, so if this harvests, it's not me! Thanks, dcp.
Tom Scola - May 17, 2005 4:23:59 am PDT #2963 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
An infected computer will put a fake email on the messages it sends out. It's coming from a computer that has your email address in its address book, or in its web browser cache. If you look at the "Received:" headers in the message that is getting bounced, you can track down the IP address that the messages are coming from.
§ ita § - May 17, 2005 4:32:12 am PDT #2964 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
An infected computer will put a fake email on the messages it sends out
That's why I asked! But the page you linked to didn't say it was forging headers. Knowing that it's harvesting address books is what tipped me that it wasn't me.
I wonder whose address books those are -- it looks like it's sending tens of e-mails, if not hundreds, to the same domain name.
If you look at the "Received:" headers in the message that is getting bounced, you can track down the IP address that the messages are coming from.
The bounced message doesn't have any IP addresses in it. Well, aside from the server bouncing, I mean.
Tom Scola - May 17, 2005 4:34:39 am PDT #2965 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
It could be coming from your computer, but if I were to make a guess, I would say it was coming from someone who recently visited provocateuse and has your email address in their cache.
§ ita § - May 17, 2005 4:37:30 am PDT #2966 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's not being sent from a provocateuse address. Well, a couple were. The ones that now number in the hundreds are "from" my profile address.