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Posted to general@jakarta.apache.org by Paulo Gaspar <pa...@krankikom.de> on 2003/07/01 14:11:09 UTC
RE: Proposal: Jakarta should protect community email addresses
Same here. (although I am glad I am not as popular as you! 300???!!!)
I was getting afraid that some servers would just start blocking my
email from this address... but this got to such a dimension that I
am sure all sysadmins must know how it works by now.
There was a time I thought I was really somehow infected, but I am
offline during weekends and I just get too much warnings from
antivirus email filters on Monday.
So, people: just get your machine offline for a while if you use
Outlook and have this kind of doubt.
Have fun,
Paulo Gaspar
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:craigmcc@apache.org]
> Sent: sexta-feira, 27 de Junho de 2003 17:48
> To: Jakarta General List
> Subject: Re: Proposal: Jakarta should protect community email addresses
>
>
> That is exactly what happens with this particular worm. If your address
> is in the address book of someone who gets infected, not only do *you*
> start to receive the messages, messages with forged "from" headers with
> your name on them also go out. Then, the volume of messages is made worse
> by all of those "helpful" spam filters that catch the fact that the virus
> is included, and return a notification to the (forged) sender.
>
> Obscuring email addresses in the archives would have zero impact on this
> particular problem.
>
> Craig (just cleaned out about 300 of these from this morning's mail)
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Re: Proposal: Jakarta should protect community email addresses
Posted by Tom Copeland <to...@infoether.com>.
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 08:20, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> Unlikely, this is by for not the first virus/worm working that way -
> during the last round I got informed that I was banned from the
> netbeans-dev list (that I had never subscribed to).
I just got one from tcopeland@apache.org. That guy is a jerk! He keeps
sending me viruses!
Tom Copeland
tcopeland@apache.org
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Re: Proposal: Jakarta should protect community email addresses
Posted by "Andrew C. Oliver" <ac...@apache.org>.
On 7/1/03 8:20 AM, "Stefan Bodewig" <bo...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Paulo Gaspar <pa...@krankikom.de> wrote:
>
>> but this got to such a dimension that I am sure all sysadmins must
>> know how it works by now.
>
> Unlikely, this is by for not the first virus/worm working that way -
> during the last round I got informed that I was banned from the
> netbeans-dev list (that I had never subscribed to).
>
> I think those antivirus-software should get smarter. The scanners
> know which virus they've found as they name it in the bounce mails (a
> couple of hundreds here as well by now) - so one should think they'd
> also know that the From header is forged and any bounce is useless.
>
Exactly!!! Idiots!! The Virus uses the anti-virus to do most of its dirty
work.
> Stefan
>
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Re: Proposal: Jakarta should protect community email addresses
Posted by Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>.
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Paulo Gaspar <pa...@krankikom.de> wrote:
> but this got to such a dimension that I am sure all sysadmins must
> know how it works by now.
Unlikely, this is by for not the first virus/worm working that way -
during the last round I got informed that I was banned from the
netbeans-dev list (that I had never subscribed to).
I think those antivirus-software should get smarter. The scanners
know which virus they've found as they name it in the bounce mails (a
couple of hundreds here as well by now) - so one should think they'd
also know that the From header is forged and any bounce is useless.
Stefan
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Re: Proposal: Jakarta should protect community email addresses
Posted by "Andrew C. Oliver" <ac...@apache.org>.
Stop using Windows and such fears generally subside.
On 7/1/03 8:11 AM, "Paulo Gaspar" <pa...@krankikom.de> wrote:
> Same here. (although I am glad I am not as popular as you! 300???!!!)
>
> I was getting afraid that some servers would just start blocking my
> email from this address... but this got to such a dimension that I
> am sure all sysadmins must know how it works by now.
>
> There was a time I thought I was really somehow infected, but I am
> offline during weekends and I just get too much warnings from
> antivirus email filters on Monday.
>
> So, people: just get your machine offline for a while if you use
> Outlook and have this kind of doubt.
>
>
> Have fun,
> Paulo Gaspar
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:craigmcc@apache.org]
>> Sent: sexta-feira, 27 de Junho de 2003 17:48
>> To: Jakarta General List
>> Subject: Re: Proposal: Jakarta should protect community email addresses
>>
>>
>> That is exactly what happens with this particular worm. If your address
>> is in the address book of someone who gets infected, not only do *you*
>> start to receive the messages, messages with forged "from" headers with
>> your name on them also go out. Then, the volume of messages is made worse
>> by all of those "helpful" spam filters that catch the fact that the virus
>> is included, and return a notification to the (forged) sender.
>>
>> Obscuring email addresses in the archives would have zero impact on this
>> particular problem.
>>
>> Craig (just cleaned out about 300 of these from this morning's mail)
>
>
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