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Re: recent slew of viruses posted to Procmail list

2004-02-01 17:27:35
Toen ik Professional Software Engineering kietelde, kwam er dit uit:

Quite obviously, some current or past subscriber to the procmail list
is a total fsck.

Or the virus 'guessed' the combination of list-address and some-subscriber
from an html-file on the disk of the infected machine. Someone who
searched
the list-archives and saved the result.

A virus can also harvest such combinations directly from the www.
For example:
  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg .de/mailing-lists/procmail/2004-02/msg00019.html
contains many addresses to combine.


Note that the list config could be switched to PLAIN TEXT ONLY, though
before doing so, I'd need to pass it by the admin at rwth-aachen.

Please do.

-- 
Affijn, Ruud


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