Yeah, Sure

[Laura Eaves]

You know, the old "mailer-daemon" approach to sending malware has been 
around for a while -- I have gotten a lot of them -- but it's funny it 
should have come to her purportedly from "rednote support" -- quite 
hilarious...
Also, I've gotten virus mail on windows that spread by picking a random file 
name from a person's "My Documents" folder and emailing it with a little 
request to give feedback -- the things that raised a red flag about this 
were the double extension of the attached file, and also the fact that the 
request was in very poor English.

The thing that annoyed me most about windows when I moved to it was the 
hiding of extensions -- and not only the folder option that hid extensions 
of known file types, but also the added suppression of certain file types 
marked with "NEVERSHOWEXT" in the registry.  I got bitten by that -- and I 
run pretty cautiously, if that's possible on windows -- and have been 
furious at windows since, for trying to be simple for the non-techies, 
powerful for the legitimate software developers, and secure -- and you can't 
really do all three very easily.
Anyway, I can't wait to get back on linux.
More on that in the next post...
--le

Take care.
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "david poehlman" <david.poehlman at handsontechnologeyes.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: Yeah, Sure


I'd love to see this mall ware.

Johnnie Apple Seed

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>; <blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com>;
<ma-linux at rednote.net>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 8:46 AM
Subject: Yeah, Sure


Got some malware this morning that just made me laugh. I've not seen one
like this before and just wanted to share it.

Of course, there's undoubtedly a malicious payload. In my situation it's
funny because I am "rednote.net," and I am "the rednote support team,"
and Chief Cook, and Bottle Washer, etc.

From: "Automatic Email Delivery Software" <MAILER-DAEMON at rednote.net>

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Dear user janina at rednote.net, mail server administrator of rednote.net
would like to inform you

Your account was used to send a large amount of unsolicited commercial
email messages during this week.
Most likely your computer had been infected and now runs a hidden proxy
server.

Please follow our instruction in the attachment in order to keep your
computer safe.

Best regards,
rednote.net support team.


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Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040
Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com

Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG)
janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org

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