On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 07:30:23PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Erick Calder wrote: > > I'm getting a bunch of mails from MAILER-DAEMONs around the world > > complaining mostly that [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist. > > these are generated by dictionary spammers who are using my e-mail address > > for the reply-to header. > > Are you sure they are spammers? I am getting hammered myself with > similar things. But almost all of the mail I am getting are generated > by the SOBIG virus. Perhaps what you are seeing is really the fallout > of that virus and not truly the work of spammers in this case. > > Interesting how spammers are siblings to viruses.
Siblings perhaps, but more likely they're different aspects of the same people. I say that because there is an increasingly large, and increasingly compelling, set of evidence that Sobig.*, just to choose one example, can be used -- and *IS* being used -- as a spam engine on infected machines. -- Mike Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tired old sysadmin since 1964 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here:http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/358/0 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
