Ye flippin' gods... W32.Klez.H out the yardarm
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First I was getting spam that I traced back to here (thanks guys, you're wonderful), and now some clown grepped all the public email addr's from nopcode.com and tried to spam me to death last night and this morning with 15, count them, 15 total copies (so far) of the W32.Klez.H@mm worm. Good thing I use Eudora, and not the virus writer's best friend, Outlook. Do the usual - update your defs, delete email that appears "obvious" spam or weird stuff (email from wdut with "here is your update", and one that attempts to look like a letter bounce), scan everything. Sorry, crap like this gets my tits in a wringer.
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First I was getting spam that I traced back to here (thanks guys, you're wonderful), and now some clown grepped all the public email addr's from nopcode.com and tried to spam me to death last night and this morning with 15, count them, 15 total copies (so far) of the W32.Klez.H@mm worm. Good thing I use Eudora, and not the virus writer's best friend, Outlook. Do the usual - update your defs, delete email that appears "obvious" spam or weird stuff (email from wdut with "here is your update", and one that attempts to look like a letter bounce), scan everything. Sorry, crap like this gets my tits in a wringer.
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Yes, this virus is so annoying. With me, the same people are sending it out (it comes from the same server). The subjects have random titles, and all include little infected executables. It does indeed prey on Outlook- The amount of SPAM is becoming ridiculous. Before I just used to delete it, but now its stupid how you can't even post your email address anywhere. 2 ideas: 1) How about we put pages all over the place on the web where when the link is followed, the user is taken to a page of randomly generated email addresses. This can push email harvesters round in circles infinetly. This page contains a link to another page etc- 2) Some kind of browser plugin which takes an email address (which can be encrypted in the HTML), and formats it to abc@xyz.com. The encryption could be standard Well they are just ideas, and probably not very good ones :((( Ben Vacancy for signature; Apply within.
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Yes, this virus is so annoying. With me, the same people are sending it out (it comes from the same server). The subjects have random titles, and all include little infected executables. It does indeed prey on Outlook- The amount of SPAM is becoming ridiculous. Before I just used to delete it, but now its stupid how you can't even post your email address anywhere. 2 ideas: 1) How about we put pages all over the place on the web where when the link is followed, the user is taken to a page of randomly generated email addresses. This can push email harvesters round in circles infinetly. This page contains a link to another page etc- 2) Some kind of browser plugin which takes an email address (which can be encrypted in the HTML), and formats it to abc@xyz.com. The encryption could be standard Well they are just ideas, and probably not very good ones :((( Ben Vacancy for signature; Apply within.
Ben Wootton wrote: How about we put pages all over the place on the web where when the link is followed, the user is taken to a page of randomly generated email addresses. This can push email harvesters round in circles infinetly. This page contains a link to another page etc- There are such things out there. Stopping Spambots: A Spambot Trap Here's one in action Spider Trap Bruce Duncan CP#9088, CPUA 0xA1EE, Sonork 100.10030
Hi everyone. My name's Bruce. And I suffer from VB. -
Ben Wootton wrote: How about we put pages all over the place on the web where when the link is followed, the user is taken to a page of randomly generated email addresses. This can push email harvesters round in circles infinetly. This page contains a link to another page etc- There are such things out there. Stopping Spambots: A Spambot Trap Here's one in action Spider Trap Bruce Duncan CP#9088, CPUA 0xA1EE, Sonork 100.10030
Hi everyone. My name's Bruce. And I suffer from VB.The blibbleblobble site gives php code for you to add a spidertrap to your own webpages - working on the principal that if a spider harvests 1000 fake emails and 1 real email from your site, then the list of mails is basically worthless http://www.blibbleblobble.co.uk/Tools/SpiderTrap/SpiderTrapCode.php -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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First I was getting spam that I traced back to here (thanks guys, you're wonderful), and now some clown grepped all the public email addr's from nopcode.com and tried to spam me to death last night and this morning with 15, count them, 15 total copies (so far) of the W32.Klez.H@mm worm. Good thing I use Eudora, and not the virus writer's best friend, Outlook. Do the usual - update your defs, delete email that appears "obvious" spam or weird stuff (email from wdut with "here is your update", and one that attempts to look like a letter bounce), scan everything. Sorry, crap like this gets my tits in a wringer.
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Gawd bless NAV. Without it, Klez would have ruined my life - twice. Jon Sagara There is no spoon.
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Gawd bless NAV. Without it, Klez would have ruined my life - twice. Jon Sagara There is no spoon.
Jon Sagara wrote: Gawd bless NAV God bless Eudora, and curse Outlook. If it wasn't for Outlook, we wouldn't have nearly as many problems. Brillant design there Bill&Co.
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Jon Sagara wrote: Gawd bless NAV God bless Eudora, and curse Outlook. If it wasn't for Outlook, we wouldn't have nearly as many problems. Brillant design there Bill&Co.
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Todd C. Wilson wrote: If it wasn't for Outlook, we wouldn't have nearly as many problems. True, but NAV caught the virus in Outlook before it did anything. Jon Sagara There is no spoon.
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Jon Sagara wrote: Gawd bless NAV God bless Eudora, and curse Outlook. If it wasn't for Outlook, we wouldn't have nearly as many problems. Brillant design there Bill&Co.
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LOL... If everyone used Endora, they would just write scripts to hack the Endora address file. Tim Smith I know what you're thinking punk, you're thinking did he spell check this document? Well, to tell you the truth I kinda forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this here's CodeProject, the most powerful forums in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question, Do I feel lucky? Well do ya punk?
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LOL... If everyone used Endora, they would just write scripts to hack the Endora address file. Tim Smith I know what you're thinking punk, you're thinking did he spell check this document? Well, to tell you the truth I kinda forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this here's CodeProject, the most powerful forums in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question, Do I feel lucky? Well do ya punk?
Tim Smith wrote: If everyone used Endora, they would just write scripts to hack the Endora address file. But how would they run? Eudora doesn't execute html email like Outlook does, unless you tell it do. By default, Eudora has automation and MAPI turned OFF. But if some idiot user clicks on "see me naked.exe" then they deserve whatever hell they get.
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Yes, this virus is so annoying. With me, the same people are sending it out (it comes from the same server). The subjects have random titles, and all include little infected executables. It does indeed prey on Outlook- The amount of SPAM is becoming ridiculous. Before I just used to delete it, but now its stupid how you can't even post your email address anywhere. 2 ideas: 1) How about we put pages all over the place on the web where when the link is followed, the user is taken to a page of randomly generated email addresses. This can push email harvesters round in circles infinetly. This page contains a link to another page etc- 2) Some kind of browser plugin which takes an email address (which can be encrypted in the HTML), and formats it to abc@xyz.com. The encryption could be standard Well they are just ideas, and probably not very good ones :((( Ben Vacancy for signature; Apply within.
Ok, thanks to Bruce's links, I've now implemented a spam spider trap into my site :-) http://www.grapefruitopia.com/contacts/ -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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Tim Smith wrote: If everyone used Endora, they would just write scripts to hack the Endora address file. But how would they run? Eudora doesn't execute html email like Outlook does, unless you tell it do. By default, Eudora has automation and MAPI turned OFF. But if some idiot user clicks on "see me naked.exe" then they deserve whatever hell they get.
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If you use a preview window in Eudora, then you are "executing" HTML email. Eudora uses the same Internet Explorer DHTML component as Outlook and Outlook Express. A simple solution for Outlook users: Turn of the preview pane and turn on the autopreview. Then you have to actively double-click on the message to open it, but you do get a preview of the first few lines to determine whether or not it's worth opening. Most of the virii for Outlook are of the execute-the-attached file variety. I agree that if someone opens a file without knowing what it is, they deserve what they get. People seem to want protection spoon-fed to them instead of learning how to use the Internet intelligently. It's just like driving a car: There are idiots who will probably get you killed, but if you're careful, you can evade them. -- Paul "I drank... WHAT?"