[ale] Spam irony, part two

[Michael Phillips]

On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 05:21:55PM -0400, ChangingLINKS.com spake thusly:
> Ahhh! I have been getting these as well. Perhaps the person doing this has 
> gotten a hold of the ale mailing list?
> 

Nah, just simply the Klez virus making it's rounds....

Mike


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> Drew
> http://www.ChangingLINKS.com
> 
> On Monday 06 May 2002 16:46, Irv Mullins wrote:
> > On Monday 06 May 2002 02:35 pm, you wrote:
> > > I've been getting lots of mail with no body and a subject that looks
> > > like a random line pulled from a random document.  The from fields don't
> > > match the received-froms, and there's always an attachment...
> > >
> > > I always felt left out when email worms were going around.  I never got
> > > a single "I Love You" or "Nimda" letter.  I'm getting plenty from this
> > > new one, though...
> >
> > I've been getting 1 or 2 per day which have suspicious addresses,
> > begin with a couple lines of html, and always have three
> > "attachments":
> >
> > 1. a .pif , .exe, or .bat file, which is actually
> > about 85k written in Visual C++,
> >
> > 2. an empty file (zero bytes)
> >
> > 3. a file that appears to be a random selection, probably
> > from the sender's disk. Sometimes a jpg, sometimes html...
> >
> > item #1 contains some strings that make me think it may connect
> > and send e-mail somewhere. Needless to say, I'm not going to
> > run these. They wouldn't work on Linux anyway.
> > Is this just another 'worm' making the rounds?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Irv
> >
> >
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