From: Martin Sevior (msevior_at_seviorpc.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Feb 10 2004 - 19:12:18 EST
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 05:57, M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 10:26:08 AM +0100, Ingo Lantschner (ingo.lists_at_vum.at) wrote:
> >
> > I regulary get messages like this with attachemnts like test.exe - I dont
> > know if it is virus but it has nothing to do with Abiword - or?!? And
> > Abiword-dev is the only list whoch sends such nonsens - why?
> >
>
> Same here, as already said. This is getting ridiculous: 10+ other spam
> messages today.
>
> Seeing the comment above confirms my impression that the list manager
> program is letting crap through. To verify it I'll unsubscribe in a
> few hours. If tomorrow evening *this* mailbox will still be overfilled
> with spam as it has been these days, I'll know that somebody external
> is sending very well forged spam to me and Ingo.
>
> If this mailbox will remain empty I'll know that the list manager
> program sorely needs reconfiguration or whatever, and will wait until
> that happens.
>
The problem is almost certainly that some windows user subscribed to the
Abiword mailing list has been infected with the virus. If you really
want to help please locate the origin of the IP address with the spam in
it. Once we get the IP address we can unsubscribe the user.
Martin
> Ciao,
> Marco Fioretti
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