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Re: [ot] SPAM/Worm problem
From: |
Edward Sanford Sutton, III |
Subject: |
Re: [ot] SPAM/Worm problem |
Date: |
Sun, 29 Feb 2004 17:10:16 -0700 |
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KMail/1.6.51 |
On Sunday February 29 2004 16:51, Hans Forbrich wrote:
> Nothing wierd about it. The program opened reads the user's address book,
> composes a new email to random people on the address book and make them
> appear to be from other random people from te address book.
Worms also scan disks for files that are likely to contain email addresses now
too.
> As far as I know, this can happen easily in Outlook and a few other
> MS-based mail programs. As far as I know it does not happen if a) you
> don't open the attachmenyt or b) you use a unix/linux mail client.
Often true of most non-microsoft products; they don't try to come with
exploits enabled out of the box.
> Does the Lilypond Wiki support uploads? If so, then use that as a method
> to post support filers and block ALL attachments to this group/list.
I'd suggest going to a newsgroup style of communication, but those usually
lead to more emails too. =/