Crap mail lacking a Subject Header

[Boaz Bezborodko]

> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 21:55:42 -0400 From: Fairlight 
> <fairlite at fairlite.com> Subject: Re: Crap mail lacking a Subject 
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> Message-ID: <20100925215542.A13265 at iglou.com> Content-Type: 
> text/plain; charset=us-ascii Apologies in advance for this not being 
> threaded properly, JPR. I approved your message when mailman had it 
> hung up, but it was zapped by IgLou's spam filters for a score of 
> 12.3, and I no longer have the original. JPR said: *****
>> >  So now I know that AOL's mail filters peek into the body of incoming
>> >  email...
>> >  
>> >  I think I will also surmise that my friend and Courtney were both
>> >  victims of another security fuck-up on Windoze.
> *****
>
> 1) Always assume your email isn't private, unless it's GPG/PGP encrypted.
> Actually, I was taught "never", by my mentor at university, but that was
> before the advent of PGP--or at least its widespread availability.  Even if
> you fully control one endpoint, you don't control the other endpoint, nor
> any relays in use.  (I know -you- should know this, JP, I'm saying it for
> others' edification.)
>
> 2) What else is new with Windows?  :/
>
> What -really- frosts my cornflakes is that this is now -three- times the
> list has been attacked by Courtney's computer(s).  There was the first one
> that I started the security thread on.  Then there was one like the next
> day.  And sitting in mailman, along with your own message, was ANOTHER one
> from Courtney, which had a different URL at the same initial shortener, but
> which was quite obviously the same crap.  I discarded it, saving everyone
> the trouble.
>
> Someone needs to get on Courtney's case and get him to clean his $Diety
> d***ed computer, already.  I dunno about Bill, but I'm already tired of
> dealing with it.  And unless Bill tells me otherwise, the -next- message
> I see coming through from Courtney that's of the same ilk, if I get to it
> before Bill does, I'm removing Courtney from the list without any personal
> warning.  Enough is enough.  I -should- have done it this time, come to
> think of it, and wish I had.  If there was ever a reason to unsub someone,
> this is it.
>
> (How lax [non-existent] does your security have to be to not only get
> infected, but not -realise- you've been infected with something this
> virulent for at least four days?)*sigh*
>
> mark->
> -- Audio panton, cogito singularis.

I've come across this particular type of spam twice before.  The first 
time it was my brother's AOL account that was hacked and a simple filter 
put in that sent out a URL to everyone listed on an e-mail that came to 
him.  He changed the setting and his password and that resolved the issue.

The other instance was another friend where the same thing happened to 
his on-line Yahoo account.

I don't think Windows was involved in this at all.

But Windows does seem to be involved in what seems to be a cyber attack 
on Irans' nuclear program.
http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2010/09/25/cyber-war-on-iran-the-siemens-connection/

Boaz
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