[linas@linas.org: Re: You appear to have a virus]

[Chris Lyttle]

Linas 
I suspect this is klez, I've been getting a few of these too, they
usually bypass spamassassin and I haven't had the time to sit down and
fine tune it to catch em. Most of em are pretty obviously not from the
person that sent em. Oh BTW I've deleted a bunch of them from the
mailing list admin pages, at least mailman seems to recognise they
aren't legit.

Chris

On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 17:39, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> Please excuse this email, but ....
> 
> Some virus out there is sending other viruses out to random people, 
> using my email as the 'from' address.  But if you look at the email
> headers carefully, you will see that its not from me, and that its
> from someplace in russia or arzebaijan or something like that. 
> 
> Just because your email client says the email is from me ... well,
> it might not be.  Check the headers, don't execute the attachments.
> 
> I know I'm not the only victim of this; I've been getting a lot
> of spam recently that appears to come from valid linux addresses,
> including some bombs purportedly from Alan Cox himself!    
> 
> (By freak accident, gnucash-patches got nailed with one of these. 
> Now, what are the chances of that?)
> 
> --linas
> 
> p.s. yes, I'll try working on spam filters real soon now.
> 
> -- 
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