Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jbms@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Virus
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 00:30:49
Message-Id: 87d6araoyv.fsf@jbms.ath.cx
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Virus by John Nilsson
1 John Nilsson <john@×××××××.nu> writes:
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3 >> I would say that actually the most logical conclusion is that your
4 >> e-mail address was obtained from a web spider which found the web
5 >> interface to the portage CVS tree, or an archive of this mailing
6 >> list.
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8 > I should have said that the virus gets mailadresses from incoming mail
9 > to the infected victims pop3 account.
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11 I am not sure what you mean by this. I would imagine that certain spam
12 spider software would attempt to find a related address to use as the
13 spoofed From address.
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16 Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
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