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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca> on 2003/08/22 18:55:40 UTC
[users@httpd] [ADMIN] Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
I suspect everyone who recently posted to the list is receiving a flood of
this garbage. I have unsubscribed xfree86@optusnet.com.au from the list,
but I don't think that will stop the flood, since it seems to be bouncing
a backlog of old messages.
This is another example of very crappy behaviour by a (Microsoft) mail
transfer agent. It should be bouncing to the list admin address, not the
sender.
Joshua.
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Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 02:07:56 +1000
From: postmaster@optusnet.com.au
To: joshua@slive.ca
Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
Delivery to the following recipients failed.
XFree86@optusnet.com.au
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Re: [users@httpd] [ADMIN] Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
Posted by Joseph A Nagy Jr <jo...@charter.net>.
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On Friday 22 August 2003 12:14, Leif W wrote this in an attempt to be
witty and informative:
<snip>
> P.S. Since about Monday or Tuesday, all my posts to this list and
> others have been lagging or randomly not showing up. I suspect my
> ISP's (Charter) Communigate mail server is being swamped by mails
> from all the infected computers or maybe they changed some queue
> settings. Anyways, sorry if responses to questions come in a day
> later. ;-)
<snip>
You having problems with Charter too? Sucks to be us, eh? hehe.
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Re: [users@httpd] [ADMIN] Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
Posted by DvDmanDT <dv...@telia.com>.
If any mail headers includes telia.com, please notify me as I'm probably the
source then... I don't think I'm the only person using Telia, but I would
still suspect it's me...
// DvDmanDT
MSN: dvdmandt@hotmail.com
Mail: dvdmandt@telia.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leif W" <wa...@usa.net>
To: <us...@httpd.apache.org>
Cc: <xf...@optusnet.com.au>; <po...@optusnet.com.au>
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: [users@httpd] [ADMIN] Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
> This is most likely due to a virus ( SOBIG.F ) which is going around. It
> forges messages by setting the "From" header to a random address found in
an
> infected computer's address book. It's not the fault of the mail client,
> (except for being vulnerable to such viruses ^^). I've been getting
> undeliverable messages since about Monday or Tuesday, from messages I
never
> sent. I.e. some people on the list have my address in their address book
> and they got infected because they're not running a virus scanner. So
> please people, get a virus scanner, any way you can, and update the virus
> definitions, and scan your entire system (all drives, inside archives,
> program files, everything) at least once a day (i.e. set it to run each
> night).
>
> Leif
>
> P.S. Since about Monday or Tuesday, all my posts to this list and others
> have been lagging or randomly not showing up. I suspect my ISP's
(Charter)
> Communigate mail server is being swamped by mails from all the infected
> computers or maybe they changed some queue settings. Anyways, sorry if
> responses to questions come in a day later. ;-)
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joshua Slive" <jo...@slive.ca>
> To: <us...@httpd.apache.org>
> Cc: <xf...@optusnet.com.au>; <po...@optusnet.com.au>
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 12:55 PM
> Subject: [users@httpd] [ADMIN] Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
>
>
> > I suspect everyone who recently posted to the list is receiving a flood
of
> > this garbage. I have unsubscribed xfree86@optusnet.com.au from the
list,
> > but I don't think that will stop the flood, since it seems to be
bouncing
> > a backlog of old messages.
> >
> > This is another example of very crappy behaviour by a (Microsoft) mail
> > transfer agent. It should be bouncing to the list admin address, not
the
> > sender.
> >
> > Joshua.
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 02:07:56 +1000
> > From: postmaster@optusnet.com.au
> > To: joshua@slive.ca
> > Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
> >
> > This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
> >
> > Delivery to the following recipients failed.
> >
> > XFree86@optusnet.com.au
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Re: [users@httpd] [ADMIN] Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
Posted by Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>.
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Leif W wrote:
> This is most likely due to a virus ( SOBIG.F ) which is going around.
No. That's what I thought initially, but by looking at the bounce
messages I determined that it is, in fact, bouncing real list messages.
> P.S. Since about Monday or Tuesday, all my posts to this list and others
> have been lagging or randomly not showing up. I suspect my ISP's (Charter)
> Communigate mail server is being swamped by mails from all the infected
> computers or maybe they changed some queue settings. Anyways, sorry if
> responses to questions come in a day later. ;-)
The apache mail server has been swamped as well. There have been
particular problems with some addressess like apache at apache org, which
exists in practically every file produced by the Apache Software
Foundation, and therefore gets hugely hit by this type of virus. (The
virus searches the hard drive for addresses.)
Joshua.
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Re: [users@httpd] [ADMIN] Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
Posted by Leif W <wa...@usa.net>.
This is most likely due to a virus ( SOBIG.F ) which is going around. It
forges messages by setting the "From" header to a random address found in an
infected computer's address book. It's not the fault of the mail client,
(except for being vulnerable to such viruses ^^). I've been getting
undeliverable messages since about Monday or Tuesday, from messages I never
sent. I.e. some people on the list have my address in their address book
and they got infected because they're not running a virus scanner. So
please people, get a virus scanner, any way you can, and update the virus
definitions, and scan your entire system (all drives, inside archives,
program files, everything) at least once a day (i.e. set it to run each
night).
Leif
P.S. Since about Monday or Tuesday, all my posts to this list and others
have been lagging or randomly not showing up. I suspect my ISP's (Charter)
Communigate mail server is being swamped by mails from all the infected
computers or maybe they changed some queue settings. Anyways, sorry if
responses to questions come in a day later. ;-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua Slive" <jo...@slive.ca>
To: <us...@httpd.apache.org>
Cc: <xf...@optusnet.com.au>; <po...@optusnet.com.au>
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 12:55 PM
Subject: [users@httpd] [ADMIN] Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
> I suspect everyone who recently posted to the list is receiving a flood of
> this garbage. I have unsubscribed xfree86@optusnet.com.au from the list,
> but I don't think that will stop the flood, since it seems to be bouncing
> a backlog of old messages.
>
> This is another example of very crappy behaviour by a (Microsoft) mail
> transfer agent. It should be bouncing to the list admin address, not the
> sender.
>
> Joshua.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 02:07:56 +1000
> From: postmaster@optusnet.com.au
> To: joshua@slive.ca
> Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
>
> This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
>
> Delivery to the following recipients failed.
>
> XFree86@optusnet.com.au
>
>
>
>
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