These are all generated on the fly, a similiar one is targeting redhat's mailing lists. Pretty easy to have a virus pick a random (from a list) username_at_hostname then also pick a random subset of text for the body (from a list), attach the file and send it off. It would be pretty trivial to write something like this in any language. Cheers, Mark On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 14:04, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > isn't this a virus? > > It looks to me as somebody deliberately does this manually. > > I just cannot believe that viruses are meanwhile so good that the > message look this real. > > I deleted the attachment to avoid further spreading. > > Erich > > administration_at_freebsd.org wrote: > > > Hello user of Freebsd.org e-mail server, > > > > Our main mailing server will be temporary unavaible for next two days, > > to continue receiving mail in these days you have to configure our free > > auto-forwarding service. > > > > For more information see the attached file. > > > > Have a good day, > > The Freebsd.org team http://www.freebsd.org > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" -- Mark Sergeant <msergeant_at_snsonline.net> SNSOnline Technical Services
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