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On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Jack Bates wrote: > Dominic J. Eidson wrote: > > I'm having a feeling that someone harvested a bunch of adresses, possibly > > from NANOG, and is using them as the sender address in pretend-to-be KLEZ > > spams.. I have received several bounces lately, several of them appearing > > to be KLEZ, all with me as the original sender - and yet, there's no > > chance I was ever infected with KLEZ (No windows boxes here...) > > > > The nature of KLEZ is that it spoofs the sender address. Anyone infected > with KLEZ or one of the variants and on NANOG will likely send out klez > spoofing as NANOG posters. I am quite aware of how KLEZ works - the sudden proliferation of NANOG-ers who reported that they've gotten KLEZ-ish bounces due to spoofed sender adrresses, seemed a little too coincidential. On the flip side, maybe there's still entirely too many people running vulnerable email readers...</irony> - d. -- Dominic J. Eidson "Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai-menu!" - Gimli ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.the-infinite.org/ http://www.the-infinite.org/~dominic/
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