marketplace virus posting
auditude at cox.net
auditude at cox.net
Sun Apr 11 21:28:29 EDT 2004
Did I ask if it would infect my system(no)? Did you answer any of my questions(no)?
Still wondering whether this stuff is from a person or a bot,
Ken
> From: Brett Dikeman <brett at cloud9.net>
> Date: 2004/04/11 Sun PM 09:23:10 EDT
> To: <auditude at cox.net>, quattro at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: marketplace virus posting
>
> At 8:54 PM -0400 4/11/04, <auditude at cox.net> wrote:
> >Question for you guys that might know.
> >
> >Is stuff like this the result of an actual person actively trying to
> >set us up to catch a computer virus? Or is this some sophisticated
> >"bot"? What the heck is the motivation for people who want to
> >spread viruses?
> >
> >This is a marketplace posting that looks like it was a virus to me.
> >
> >http://www.audifans.com/pipermail/marketplace/2004-April/001640.html
>
> Was there an attachment?(no).
>
> Can an email with no attachment infect your system?(no).
>
> This virus been out for months and well known to fake coming from
> "admin teams" at various domains.
>
> How it even made it past the filters, since marketplace is a closed
> list, warrants further investigation, but all email in+out is
> scanned, and attachments aren't allowed on any list.
> Brett
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