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Re: weird worm ?
From: Dennis Freise <cat () final-frontier ath cx>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 14:32:29 +0100
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 13:48:14 +0100 vogt () hansenet com wrote:
Hi everyone - 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 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. Anyone else receiving this stuff? 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.
I think it's a way the spamers want to defeat spam-filters with learning capability. You get that mail, your spam-filter sees that it's not spam and adds it to its database. So that particular eMail-Adress gets lower scores the next time he sends you REAL spam, and the more likely the chances are that the spam actually reaches you. BTW: I'm not getting 1-2 per day of these, I'm getting about 30-50 of them. Kinda VERY annoying shit :( -- Dennis Freise <cat () final-frontier ath cx> GnuPG key fingerprint: 2DE8 CCEF 6E20 11D4 3B27 21EC B0BA 1749 D2C8 38ED Get my public key at : http://www.final-frontier.ath.cx/gpg_public_key.txt
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