Yay, More Email Spam!

Anyone else getting flooded with 418-420k messages with forged from addresses and headers, titles like “test” and “hello”, no text and just a “readme.zip” attachment consisting of a readme.htm (many spaces) .scr file? Is this the new virus that’s going around or something?


Tell me again why we don’t draw and quarter spammers again?

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7 Comments on “Yay, More Email Spam!”

  1. That’s the new virus… we just got a message about it today here at work. Subjects include:
    test
    hi
    hello
    Mail Delivery System
    Mail Transaction Failed
    Server Report Status Error
    None here yet, but it’s just a matter of time.

  2. It’s the new virus W32/Mydoom@MM that’s flooding mailboxes since yesterday and apparently is going to DDoS SCO.

  3. Oh goody…. for me they started yesterday morning. If you are feeling left out I can install Windows, and then Outlook Express and I’m sure I can get some to you quick enough 🙂

  5. Christophe – that’s the funniest thing I’ve read all day. “A high-volume system like (Windows) that has been thoroughly tested will be by far the most secure”….. bwahahahhahaha.

  6. Gates on Linux Security

    On the day that a the nice big Windows Outlook Worm is filling up email inboxes (mine included, since yesterday…

  7. To make Gates dream in perspertive, there is an interesting article at InfoWorld about a new security hole in IE.
    “New Explorer hole could be devastating”
    http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/01/28/HNiehole_1.html
    I don’t see how these holes would be unfixable, but hey I am just a programmer.
    PS: I tried initially to post this comment on ufies but when I click preview I never get the next page.