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Re: [ga] Got a virus, Ken?



Leah and all former DNSO GA members or other interested stakeholders/users,

  I agree Leah that some folks are getting bit by this virus.  However it
is not an all that new of a virus.  Ken should have taken preemptive
steps with a good virus protection product to provide adequate
if not more than adequate protection to prevent being duped, as
it seems you should have.  He didn't.  As a person whom holds
himself out as a leader, he showed or is showing very poor
judgment IF he was indeed duped, possibility we do not know
to be true..  Surely Digital.net, a Ken Stubbs stays current
on viruses? See Digital's history link:
http://www.digitel.net/default_html.asp#



Leah G wrote:

> 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]
> >
>
> --
> Leah G.
> http://forums.delphiforums.com/atlargeorg
> http://forums.delphiforums.com/domainwatch

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