So I am infected, huh?
If you were infected you would be sending spam, not receiving it.
Do I wish I was somebody else right now. Somebody not... married, not madly in love with a beautiful woman who can kill me with her pinkie!
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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.
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.
tommyrot - May 17, 2005 4:44:44 am PDT #2967 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Anyone know anything about this?
The entire senior editorial staff of LinuxWorld Magazine has today announced that they will be leaving the magazine, effective immediately.
LinuxWorld has never particularly impressed me, but still... weird.
We feel that recent articles published with the consent of Sys-Con Media fail to meet minimum generally accepted journalistic codes, and because the management of Sys-Con Media has failed to acknowledge that the articles are by all informed judgment ethically unsupportable, we have decided we must find other avenues for our work.”
What, were they publishing articles that were essentially advertisements?
Tom Scola - May 17, 2005 4:51:38 am PDT #2968 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
They were -- strangely enough -- running anti-Linux articles. Or rather, thinly-veiled anti-Linix editorials disguised as articles. [link]
Jessica - May 17, 2005 5:01:56 am PDT #2969 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The one thing I have to be careful of with my wirelessly networked Tivo is that sometimes it detects other wireless networks in the building, gets confused, and has to be re-told what our settings are before it will reconnect. This happens about twice a month.