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Re: [PLUG] Delivery reports about your e-mail
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On Wed, July 6, 2005 8:30 am, Rebecca Ore said:
> All these means that someone on an infected machine had addresses and
> spoofed both the sender (I've gotten email from clueless admins telling
> me that my machine was sending bot spam when that highly unlikely
> (running Mac or Linux, not opening email with attachments I wasn't
> expecting). Some of the bots even harvested email addresses from
> Usenet. It's possible that the current bot has a web crawler. Nobody
> on this list is necessarily infected -- the bot can get addresses in
> many way.
>
>
True. Usually the emails that we get at work like that fit this profile have
Received: from cs.drexel.edu (exchange.dclweb.org [196.192.64.252])
or some other server, just _not_ the one it actually claims it is.
spamprobe is tagging those as spam w/o any problems though :)
- -Cos
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