German spam event [was: Re: Schily ueber Deutschland]

[Bernd Nawothnig]

On 2005-05-16, François Pinard wrote:

>> I don't think that post was really from MAL.  It seems to be a
>> sporgery attack on the newsgroup.  Sigh.

> For the last two days, I receive quite an amount of robotic rejects,
> after my name was used as the forged From:

Same with me after my follow-up.

[...]

> Such forged From appears all the time as far as I am concerned, and
> had for years now.  But something significant happened this weekend.

Looks like another windows worm. Now they seem to come with a more
sofisticated 'payload'. I am sure that will increase in the future.
It is just the beginning ...



Bernd

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