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Subject: 
Re: Virus spam from Kim Brodie targetting LUGNET members?
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Wed, 9 Apr 2003 18:18:50 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
Heya y'all,

I don't know if this is old news or not, but a LUGNET search on "brodie"
turned up 0 results.  OTOH, it seems there was some discussion about 2 weeks
back about a virus email hitting .space and .castle users...

Anyway, for about a month I've been getting 2-3 emails PER DAY from one "kim
brodie" (Kim.Brodie@unilever.com) offering a hot new Microsoft security
patch attached to the email which, of course, turns out to be a virus.  I
ignored this until today, when I checked the headers again out of
curiousity, and it looks like it's specifically targetting LUGNET members.
Addresses I recognize at or near the top of the list includes the LUGNET
news email address, Todd Lehman, Ed Boxer, Bruce Schlickbernd, Joseph
Gonzales, Frank Filz, Jacob Sparre Anderson, Bram Lambrecht, the list goes
on and on.  From my untrained eye, I'd guess that the recipient list was
hand-crafted to try to cause damage to prominent members of the LUGNET
community.  (1)  I say "hand-crafted" since this list doesn't quite
represent the top 100 noisemakers, which kinda shoots down the theory that
the list was assembled by a harvestbot.

  I don't know if I'm one of the top 100, but I'm a frequent loudmouth.  I
joined LUGNET (officially) just the other day, and I've received 2-3 daily
emails from Ms. Brodie since then.  I didn't make the connection until you
pointed it out, though.  Interestingly (and perhaps as a corroboration) the
Brodie emails only go to my Excite address, though lately I've been posting
through my email at work.
  I finally set up a filter to block anything from Ms. Brodie, so that's the
last I saw of "her."  I'll post here if anything else pops up.

     Dave!



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  Virus spam from Kim Brodie targetting LUGNET members?
 
Heya y'all, I don't know if this is old news or not, but a LUGNET search on "brodie" turned up 0 results. OTOH, it seems there was some discussion about 2 weeks back about a virus email hitting .space and .castle users... Anyway, for about a month (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)

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