[CM] recent spam to cmdist

[Rick Taube]

Which virus it is that produces the glut of messages, is it possible to
tell? I read email at home on a windows2000 machine, my pc has some
(minimal) uiuc virus protection installed and I do scan for the Blaster
worm. Id love to switch over to the linux partition except that I
couldn't get the modem to work so the windows machine is only for email
and Rescue Heroes Mission Control (my  4 year old son, honest!)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cmdist-admin at ccrma.Stanford.EDU 
> [mailto:cmdist-admin at ccrma.Stanford.EDU] On Behalf Of Dave Phillips
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 6:39 AM
> To: 'cmdist at ccrma.Stanford.EDU'
> Cc: Bill Schottstaedt
> Subject: Re: [CM] recent spam to cmdist
> 
> 
> Bill Schottstaedt wrote:
>  
> > cmdist seems to be getting an enormous amount of spam -- 97
> > such messages were blocked yesterday; my apologies that
> > two got through -- I don't know how they got my email address
> > since I never use Windows.  I may change cmdist to all-moderated
> > until the current blizzard of spam dies down (that is, all messages,
> > even (apparently) from me, would require approval).
> 
> I've been clearing my mail blocker about ten times per day 
> recently. It
> seems the latest M$ virus is quite effective... Hmm, given M$'s recent
> statement regarding faulty app code (half of all Windoze 
> crashes are due
> to bad app code) I'm having difficulty determining whether 
> this is good
> code or bad... I mean, it seems to work excellently well... ;)
> 
> Btw, I had to cancel my sub to the debian-laptop list, it's just
> over-run with virus notices.
> 
> Re: your email address: Some viruses retrieve all addresses 
> from a list
> and then propagate using those addresses, whether or not you yourself
> ever came into contact with the virus. Nasty stuff...
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> == dp
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