E-mail account disabling warning.

[Michele Simionato]

"Tim Peters" <tim.one at comcast.net> wrote in message news:<mailman.14.1078281489.728.python-list at python.org>...
> It shouldn't need to be said, but if you get a message that looks like this:
> 
> > Dear user of Python.org gateway e-mail server,
> >
> > We  warn  you about some attacks on your  e-mail account. Your
> > computer may contain viruses, in order to keep your computer and
> > e-mail account safe, please, follow the  instructions.
> >
> > For details see  the attached file.
> >
> > For  security  reasons attached file is password protected. The
> > password is "28132".
> >
> > Cheers,
> >     The Python.org team
> > http://www.python.org
> 
> it's not from anyone at python.org, and the zip file attached contains a
> Windows virus.  But if you run it anyway, I'm sure Guido will be happy to
> fly to your house and clean up your PC.
> 
> it's-the-least-he-could-do-for-you-ly y'rs  - tim

I have got today a very similar message, but from my University provider.
Notice that I had just asked the University support team about filtering 
my spam and the message seemed to refer to my request (the header was
smart enough).
Fortunately, I got suspicious when I was asked to run an executable 
and I asked to the University before. It is a very subtle virus!

I don't think SpamAssassin could have filtered it. The spammers are
evolving and becoming smarter and smarter, I fear the day they will
be able to pass the Turing tests and we will be no more able to
distinguish automatically generated spam from real e-mail ....

A frightening perspective!  :-/


            Michele