Re: [ga] Got a virus, Ken?

[Leah G <jandl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Richard,

This is a widely known spam virus that uses forged headers.  I wish I 
had a nickel for every one of these I've received, supposedly from 
people I know.  I've even received it in my own account inboxes 
(multiple accounts) where the from was from my other accounts (obviously 
forged).  It's a pain because you are not certain the supposed sender 
has the virus or not, yet if everyone sent a notice to forged sender 
addresses, it would serve to increase the amount of traffic generated by 
the spam itself.  Catch 22.

Regards,

Leah

Richard Henderson wrote:

> I know I've sometimes expressed concerns about Ken Stubbs association
> with ICANN and how I wondered if that created a conflict of interest
> at the time that he headed up Afilias's (successful) application for
> the .info registry... but... I think this virus-laden message I
> received today was probably sent unwittingly from your computer, and
> I just want to advise you and the members of this list who may also
> be in your address book that you seem to have a virus Ken which is
> sending out very plausible messages to people making them think they
> are about to lose their e-mail accounts for improper use and tempting
> them to 'open up' the accompanying document. A phone call to my
> e-mail provider confirmed that this message purporting to come from
> them was not from them at all. So please be careful if any of you
> receive a message like this one below:
>
>
>
> -------------
>
>
>
> Return-Path: <kstubbs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Received: from [snip]for <richardhenderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>;
>
> Tue, 6 Apr 2004 11:33:05 +0100
>
> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 12:34:16 +0100
>
> To: richardhenderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Subject: E-mail account security warning.
>
> From: management@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Message-ID: <snip >
>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
>
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
>
> boundary="--------snip "
>
>
>
> ----------[snip]
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
>
>
> Dear user  of Ntlworld.com,
>
>
>
> Your  e-mail account will  be disabled because of improper  using in
> next
>
> three days, if  you  are  still wishing to use  it, please, resign
> your
>
> account information.
>
>
>
> Advanced details can  be  found in attached  file.
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> The  Ntlworld.com  team
>
>
>
> ----------[attached file obviously snipped]


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Leah G.
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