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Subject: 
Re: More Super Chief Registry Spam?
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Mon, 5 Aug 2002 23:01:45 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Rob Doucette writes:
I received an e-mail from landrewr@charter.net (L. Andrew Reynolds? this
e-mail address is also listed on the registry page), the subject line is
"Hello,superchief,questionnaire", there is an attachment: Gh.bat

This is the second piece of junk mail sent to superchief at doucettenet dot
com, what's the deal?



And another one from Coondog123@aol.com with a *.pif attachment, subject:
ACCESSKEY.

-Rob.



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  Re: More Super Chief Registry Spam?
 
Rob, This is simply the Klez virus harvesting email addresses from the SC Registry pages cached in IE, from a user that uses Outlook Express for their email program. It's not SPAM, per se, it's a virus doing its' work. See symantec.com, mcafee.com, (...) (22 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.general)

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  More Super Chief Registry Spam?
 
I received an e-mail from landrewr@charter.net (L. Andrew Reynolds? this e-mail address is also listed on the registry page), the subject line is "Hello,superchief,qu...ionnaire", there is an attachment: Gh.bat This is the second piece of junk mail (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jul-02, to lugnet.general)

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