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Re: Virus spam from Kim Brodie targetting LUGNET members?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 9 Apr 2003 21:44:13 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...
I have been on the list too. I did think it was unique to castle and space,
but you have changed my mind.
> 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.
Well I am on the list and I certainly don't consider myself on of the top
members of the community - unless I am mistaken, which in that case I'll
take the glory of it. ;-) I can also guess maybe the emails have been
harvested from the top headlines section, because AFAIK, all the people you
listed have posted a top news post, including myself.
> I'm personally surprised at the persistence of this "attack" -- I've been
> receiving 2 to 3 per day for the past month or so. It's so bloody obvious,
> though, that I'd be surprised if anyone was caught by it, but still...
It is real sad. I have done a very good job of staying spam free, and I am
only on this one list that seems to have targeted Lugnet members. I also
think this may be a real person who havested the info, since I have a
spamblock on my email. I also got a porn email that came from the same list
- nothing but text, but a link that led to an obviously derrogative site.
> I'm not sure what we as a community can do about this other than the obvious
> (ignore and move on), but I was wondering if anyone knows if this Kim Brodie
> exists, and if so is he/she aware of what's happening with their email
> address, and if so can someone go give 'em a whack with the clue stick?
We can all change our email and put spamblocks on our posting identity? :-D
Kim Brodie doubtfully exists, she is probably a surname for the sicko who is
running this spam ring.
> Cheers,
> - jsproat
Just me,
~Jeremy
> 1. My inner conspiracy theorist kicks in at this point, and shouts the
> undeniable reality that this is yet another doofus move by Matt Moulton.
> After a brief struggle, my inner consipiracy theorist has been hogtied and
> stuffed into the fridge. The world is once again saved.
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