Re: Security risk or weird spam?

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Author: tickticker
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Security risk or weird spam?
Virus fallout. You are just another innocent victim of bad email
administration. Delete them and move on.

anthony

On Wednesday 05 May 2004 10:43 am, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> Another dumb question, this time for the security types:
>
> Recently I've been getting messages like the following. I did not send
> either of the original messages these reference, especially not at 1 AM and
> 4 AM in the morning. Stranger yet is that the first message says I sent an
> email to my remailer () which was (wisely)
> rejected by that service. I'm not knowingly using ".cpl" attachments;
> isn't this a Windows thing? And I definitely didn't (intentionally) send
> anything to the Russian address in the second message. Any ideas?
>
> Vaughn
>
> ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
> Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
> Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 01:17:20 -0700
> From: Mail Delivery System <>
> To:
>
>
> This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
>
> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
>
>   
>     This message has been rejected because it has
>     a potentially executable attachment "Joke.cpl"
>     This form of attachment has been used by
>     recent viruses or other malware.
>     If you meant to send this file then please
>     package it up as a zip file and resend it.

>
>
> ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
> Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
> From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <>
> To: <>
> Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 04:19:06 -0400 (EDT)
>
> from m6.arctel.ru [195.14.62.6]
>
>
> *** ATTENTION ***
>
> Your e-mail is being returned to you because there was a problem with its
> delivery. The address which was undeliverable is listed in the section
> labeled: "----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----".
>
> The reason your mail is being returned to you is listed in the section
> labeled: "----- Transcript of Session Follows -----".
>
> The line beginning with "<<<" describes the specific reason your e-mail
> could not be delivered. The next line contains a second error message
> which is a general translation for other e-mail servers.
>
> Please direct further questions regarding this message to your e-mail
> administrator.
>
> --AOL Postmaster
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