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Article #2616Re: Worm and Virus attack
From: Tony Williams
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 05:27
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 05:27
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In article <bktgkc0hql@drn.newsguy.com>, Winfield Hill <whill@picovolt.com> wrote: > BTW, propagating this stuff from email address books has > an interesting implication: "hiding" your email address > by making changes, such as you've done, should not be much > help. That's because the folks who store your address in > their address books will have repaired the modifications. Apparently the addresses are being actively harvested from news spools, using the From: (and Reply To:?) lines in the headers of posts. The fastest I've seen reported so far is about 40 minutes, from a usenet post with a brand new address to the receipt of a Swen email. This is possibly why Jim_T has not been affected. It has been reported that Swen also discards addresses with the ASCII strings 'delete' or 'nospam' in them. So how do you like my new address? -- Tony Williams. Change "nospam" to "ledelec" to email.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 112d1e,4a531e8bd9cad7b2 X-Google-Attributes: gid112d1e,public X-Google-Thread: 113866,4a531e8bd9cad7b2 X-Google-Attributes: gid113866,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-24 23:51:56 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!nospam.demon.co.uk!tonyw From: Tony Williams <tonyw@nospam.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design,austin.internet Subject: Re: Worm and Virus attack Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 06:27:55 +0100 Organization: None Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4c37522ea4tonyw@nospam.demon.co.uk> References: <3f4939c.0309190951.5ee61d08@posting.google.com> <3f70cdb1.88645463@newsgroups.bellsouth.net> <thmcb.128342$834.98699@twister.austin.rr.com> <3F721832.8060904@biz.ness> <Zbpcb.90755$z32.51358@twister.austin.rr.com> <4m84nvo3229lorktic6p3ojq7ol96sjjli@4ax.com> <rppcb.90759$z32.33536@twister.austin.rr.com> <bkt99402ov7@drn.newsguy.com> <uub4nvojpfdfi136jacgjh798e058f9jfp@4ax.com> <bktgkc0hql@drn.newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ledelec.demon.co.uk X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1064472715 7152 194.222.56.201 (25 Sep 2003 06:51:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 06:51:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pluto/1.14i (RISC-OS/3.60)