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From: cat at final-frontier.ath.cx (Dennis Freise) Subject: weird worm ? On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 13:48:14 +0100 vogt@...senet.com wrote: > Hi everyone - > > For days now, I've been receiving weird messages, with a few lines of > apparently random, garbage text, like this: > > highest bailiff nomad father advise heir > oxygen honorarium allegro reveal wronskian indentation coachmen > deficient tribute arcturus mitigate bypath > > > Anyone got a clue what this is? There are no attachments to these mails, but > they keep coming in at a rate of about 1-2 per day, from different sources, > nobody I know really. > > Anyone else receiving this stuff? > > Makes neither sense as spam nor as a virus - no attachment, no product being > advertised. The only explanation I can come up with is hoping for people to > reply ("what?") and thus verifying addresses, but that doesn't fit to the > pattern of different senders. I think it's a way the spamers want to defeat spam-filters with learning capability. You get that mail, your spam-filter sees that it's not spam and adds it to its database. So that particular eMail-Adress gets lower scores the next time he sends you REAL spam, and the more likely the chances are that the spam actually reaches you. BTW: I'm not getting 1-2 per day of these, I'm getting about 30-50 of them. Kinda VERY annoying shit :( -- Dennis Freise <cat@...al-frontier.ath.cx> GnuPG key fingerprint: 2DE8 CCEF 6E20 11D4 3B27 21EC B0BA 1749 D2C8 38ED Get my public key at : http://www.final-frontier.ath.cx/gpg_public_key.txt -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/attachments/20031230/bf34f757/attachment.bin
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