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Re: weird worm ?
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 03:02:39 +1300
vogt () hansenet com wrote:
For days now, I've been receiving weird messages, with a few lines of apparently random, garbage text, like this: highest bailiff nomad father advise heir oxygen honorarium allegro reveal wronskian indentation coachmen deficient tribute arcturus mitigate bypath
Yep...
Anyone got a clue what this is? There are no attachments to these mails, but they keep coming in at a rate of about 1-2 per day, from different sources, nobody I know really.
Are you "behind" an HTML-stripping filter?? No matter -- some of them have a text/html part as well as a text/plain part; some just have text/plain. It is widely agreed that these are spam messages designed to cloud the judgement of Bayesian filters by including little or no "typically spammy" content and many (mostly) "normal" words. The messgaes like this I have seen that do have a text/html component invariably have a single link to a graphic which is presumably the actual "spam".
Anyone else receiving this stuff?
Yep...
Makes neither sense as spam nor as a virus - no attachment, no product being advertised. The only explanation I can come up with is hoping for people to reply ("what?") and thus verifying addresses, but that doesn't fit to the pattern of different senders.
Think further outside the box... Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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