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Re: Self propogating virii and spam correlation
From: "Rob Salmond" <phro () nonline net>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 19:01:46 -0500
Thats a possibility, but since most worms / virii are disected very quickly, with detailed descriptions of their inner workings outlined for anybody who cares to look a wary spammer would be hesitant to device a mechanism for shipping their bounty of addresses back to themselves for fear of discovery. More likely this company had a minimal volume of email to begin with and that through trustworthy channels. After their entire internal address list wormed its way through every shady little smtp server out there, some of which will certainly be loggin valid addresses to be sold to the highest bidder, they were on the hit list with the rest of us. *sigh* I hate spam. -Rob
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- Self propogating virii and spam correlation Keith T. Morgan (Mar 06)
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- Re: Self propogating virii and spam correlation Felipe Franciosi (Mar 07)
- Re: Self propogating virii and spam correlation Rafael Anschau (Mar 08)
- Re: Self propogating virii and spam correlation Felipe Franciosi (Mar 07)
- Re: Self propogating virii and spam correlation Rob Salmond (Mar 06)