Re: Notify about your e-mail account utilization.

From: Mark Sergeant (msergeant_at_snsonline.net)
Date: 03/03/04

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    To: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 14:08:16 +1000

    These are all generated on the fly, a similiar one is targeting redhat's
    mailing lists. Pretty easy to have a virus pick a random (from a list)
    username@hostname then also pick a random subset of text for the body
    (from a list), attach the file and send it off. It would be pretty
    trivial to write something like this in any language.

    Cheers,

    Mark

    On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 14:04, Erich Dollansky wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > isn't this a virus?
    >
    > It looks to me as somebody deliberately does this manually.
    >
    > I just cannot believe that viruses are meanwhile so good that the
    > message look this real.
    >
    > I deleted the attachment to avoid further spreading.
    >
    > Erich
    >
    > administration@freebsd.org wrote:
    >
    > > Hello user of Freebsd.org e-mail server,
    > >
    > > Our main mailing server will be temporary unavaible for next two days,
    > > to continue receiving mail in these days you have to configure our free
    > > auto-forwarding service.
    > >
    > > For more information see the attached file.
    > >
    > > Have a good day,
    > > The Freebsd.org team http://www.freebsd.org
    > >
    > >
    > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    > >
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Mark Sergeant <msergeant@snsonline.net>
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