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Re: other virus damages/costs.....(hello skynet.be ?)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Feb 2 08:57:12 2004

To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Feb 2004 07:57:07 EST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 08:56:36 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


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On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 07:57:07 EST, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>  said:
> all of them forge their email address, what is the point of warning the=
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> "sender."  Even better, I wake up this am to 285 (and growing) messages=
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> below telling me that someone at skynet is trying to send me a virus =

> message and it cc's 64 other people.  Nice.

And at least one of those other 64 will next time actually get a virus,
where all those addresses will get used to seed the address scraper.
Remember that hitting 'delete' usually doesn't actually wipe it off the
disk in most MUAs....

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