SirCam spam procmail recipie (was Re: Fwd: Your site listed)

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 04:31:13PM -0400, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > begin Colin Watson quote: > > That's the SirCam virus, which causes its victims to unknowingly send > > mail to addresses harvested from their web cache. Not much you can do > > about it, AFAIK. > > Oh sure there is.

Re: Fwd: Your site listed

2001-07-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 04:54:52PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 05:22:28PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > | Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | [cc'ed according to mail-followup-to request] > | >On 28 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote: > | >> On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:35:07AM -

Re: Fwd: Your site listed

2001-07-28 Thread dman
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 05:22:28PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: | Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | [cc'ed according to mail-followup-to request] | >On 28 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote: | >> On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:35:07AM -0500, d wrote: | >> > HEY, people what is this CARP? | | Hmm,

Re: Fwd: Your site listed

2001-07-28 Thread Joey Hess
begin Colin Watson quote: > That's the SirCam virus, which causes its victims to unknowingly send > mail to addresses harvested from their web cache. Not much you can do > about it, AFAIK. Oh sure there is. You can procmail it to /dev/null (anyone have a good recipe? Mine sucks). Or you can go a

Re: Fwd: Your site listed

2001-07-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 04:39:32PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > You think this is bad? I'm getting a message every 2 days or so with a > 200K+ attachment in base 64 (which I can't read). It says something > like: > > "Hi. How are you? I'm sending this file for your comments. > Than

Re: Fwd: Your site listed

2001-07-28 Thread Cam Ellison
* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [cc'ed according to mail-followup-to request] > >On 28 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:35:07AM -0500, d wrote: > >> > HEY, people what is this CARP? > > Hmm, seems like the SHOUT

Re: Fwd: Your site listed

2001-07-28 Thread Colin Watson
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [cc'ed according to mail-followup-to request] >On 28 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:35:07AM -0500, d wrote: >> > HEY, people what is this CARP? Hmm, seems like the SHOUTING meant a couple of letters were transposed there. :)

Re: Fwd: Your site listed

2001-07-28 Thread John Hasler
Anthony Campbell writes: > And he does - about 6 times now. It's always from a different address so > I can't filter it in any way. > Anyone had anything like this? Several per day. It's the current Windows virus. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Fwd: Your site listed

2001-07-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Jul 2001, Jeremy wrote: > yeah... that's that virus that's beeng going around. > > Jer > > Yes, so I've just been told on another newsgroup. Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one - I thought someone had it in for me :; Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Gnu/Debian Linux (Windows-free

Re: Fwd: Your site listed

2001-07-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:35:07AM -0500, d wrote: > > HEY, people what is this CARP? > > It's called "spam". > > > I have received some stuff like this before > > and just thought it was an ERROR. > > Hmmm, I wish it was.

Re: Fwd: Your site listed

2001-07-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:35:07AM -0500, d wrote: > HEY, people what is this CARP? It's called "spam". > I have received some stuff like this before > and just thought it was an ERROR. Hmmm, I wish it was. Welcome to the internet. >

Fwd: Your site listed

2001-07-28 Thread d
HEY, people what is this CARP? I have received some stuff like this before and just thought it was an ERROR. Now I am begaining to wonder.. Is this sort of thingy acceptable practice or should we turn them in to some "FROG" or "SALAMANDER" some place FAR FAR AWAY? d [EMAIL PROTECTED] S.