Re: Notify about your e-mail account utilization.

From: Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery_at_ece.cmu.edu>
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 23:10:21 -0500
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 23:08, Mark Sergeant wrote:
> 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.

Agreed.  And for reference:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.beagle.j_at_mm.html

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon univ.         KF8NH
Received on Tue Mar 02 2004 - 19:10:28 UTC

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