Re: [gentoo-user] Users hi!

[Norman Rieß]

Am 15.11.2012 um 16:46 schrieb BRM <bm_witness@×××××.com>:

>> From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
>
>> Joshua Murphy wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>>> BRM wrote:
>>>> <snip spam>
>>>> Hey,
>>>> Check this out:
>>>> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-desktop+unsubscribe@l.g.o> Bye.   Dale :-)  :-)
>>>> P.S.  I wonder if he will get the hint.  LOL
> I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
>>> Probably not, since it looks like a fairly hands-off spam attempt,
>       but I have to say, I'm rather amused by the attempt to spoof a
>       Microsoft based site (in url and content) while spamming a Linux
>       mailing list. It's first-line bait to pull someone into an 'online
>       employment' scam, by the looks of it, with the added benefit of ad
>       revenue from those who load that page with a standard browser.
>>>
>>> Poison [BLX]
>>> Joshua M. Murphy
>> Well, I did get a reply on another list.  He/she seems to have read
>     it at least.  Maybe he/she got the idea.
>> As if anyone here would follow a link like that anyway.  It's not
>     like we are a bunch of crazy folks here.  lol
>>
> First, my apologies to this list. I had gotten it from someone else, but bypassed my better judgement in part thinking being on Linux with Firefox were solution enough, which interestingly they were not.
> Now, the page itself is pretty benign but it provided the spammers a way to attack webmail sites - e.g. Yahoo! - and go through the address book and sent out their own e-mails. My guess is that it had to be a hack into Firefox to support it, but one not yet patched at least by Kubuntu (my work laptop, which I do keep up to date).
>
> Ben
>

Well it was on the razor list so it got filtered out anyway.