Doze silly Microsofting Security hoomins!

[Samuel \Houdini\ Kitten]

Talk about silly! Doze Microsofting Secoority hoomins must fink my
sisfur Tabitha and I haz badbad computer problems, 'cuz they've flooded
our mailboxes with security patches. Between Fluffybutt's mailbox and
mine, we got offur 300 of doze messages.

Don't dey know we is all Unix katzen here? Silly hoomins! Fluffybutt and
Amelia and Cleocatra and I are all Unix kitties, so we don't need
Microsofting Secoority patches.

Sammy "Houdini" Redkitten

[Seanette Blaylock]

"Samuel \"Houdini\" Kitten" > had some very
interesting things to say about Doze silly Microsofting Security
hoomins!:

>Talk about silly! Doze Microsofting Secoority hoomins must fink my
>sisfur Tabitha and I haz badbad computer problems, 'cuz they've flooded
>our mailboxes with security patches. Between Fluffybutt's mailbox and
>mine, we got offur 300 of doze messages.
>Don't dey know we is all Unix katzen here? Silly hoomins! Fluffybutt and
>Amelia and Cleocatra and I are all Unix kitties, so we don't need
>Microsofting Secoority patches.
>Sammy "Houdini" Redkitten

My Mom's been getting bombed with those too. She's saying some very
bad words about the "people" [she doesn't think they really are
people] who wrote the viruses responsible for the bombing. Dad [he has
a Macintosh] hasn't gotten any of this.

Felix, thinking he'd like to use a virus writer for a scratching post

--
Felix, with help from his secretary/Mom

[Fred Williams]

Seanette Blaylock wrote:

> "Samuel \"Houdini\" Kitten" > had some very
> interesting things to say about Doze silly Microsofting Security
> hoomins!:
>
>>Talk about silly! Doze Microsofting Secoority hoomins must fink my
>>sisfur Tabitha and I haz badbad computer problems, 'cuz they've
>>flooded our mailboxes with security patches. Between Fluffybutt's
>>mailbox and mine, we got offur 300 of doze messages.
>>Don't dey know we is all Unix katzen here? Silly hoomins! Fluffybutt
>>and Amelia and Cleocatra and I are all Unix kitties, so we don't
>>need Microsofting Secoority patches.
>>Sammy "Houdini" Redkitten
>
> My Mom's been getting bombed with those too. She's saying some very
> bad words about the "people" [she doesn't think they really are
> people] who wrote the viruses responsible for the bombing. Dad [he
> has a Macintosh] hasn't gotten any of this.
>
> Felix, thinking he'd like to use a virus writer for a scratching
> post
>

Yup it's a virus masquerading and a hacker and sending the messages.
Micro$oft doesn't send patches by email it's the "Swen" virus
spreading and infecting microsoft systems worldwide. Even Linux
computers can get their mailboxes full of the trash, but they can't
be infected. Get to the Norton or McAfee sites to find out what to
do. If you have M$ Window$ and you've opened one of these messages,
then you've got problems. There are removal tools outthere for
free, but if you're running XP you'll have to disable system restore
first, (and re-enable it afterwards).
Disinfecting your computer won't stop the bogus emails from coming,
but it will help prevent your computer from sending them out to
others.
One more thing. Notice that I add FFFf to my email address in my
signature. It is also on my "reply to" and "from" fields in my
header. All the bogus emails from the virus on other people's
machines are going to this address and none are coming to my good
email address. So this means that the virus is harvesting email
addresses from Usenet postings. This is exactly why I "munge" my
address when posting to Usenet. It would be even more effective if I
were to put the FFFf in the domain side of the address, (i.e. to the
right of the @ sign). Then the spam wouldn't even get to my mail
server. I'll do that soon, for future spam diversion.
Best of luck with it all, effurrybody. This is one unpopular virus
author. People, and now cats, all over the world are really angry
about this.
--
Regards
Fred
>
Remove FFFf to reply, please

[The Clowder]

Fred Williams > wrote:

> One more thing. Notice that I add FFFf to my email address in my
>signature. It is also on my "reply to" and "from" fields in my
>header. All the bogus emails from the virus on other people's
>machines are going to this address and none are coming to my good
>email address. So this means that the virus is harvesting email
>addresses from Usenet postings. This is exactly why I "munge" my
>address when posting to Usenet. It would be even more effective if I
>were to put the FFFf in the domain side of the address, (i.e. to the
>right of the @ sign). Then the spam wouldn't even get to my mail
>server. I'll do that soon, for future spam diversion.
> Best of luck with it all, effurrybody. This is one unpopular virus
>author. People, and now cats, all over the world are really angry
>about this.

Hi, Fred! I think you're right about Usenet being harvested for valid
email addresses, but this one had a random element to it as well.
Earthlink has a two-tier spamblocker and level one culls out mail
that, to them, is "Known Spam". They set up several fake email
addresses and presume that anything winding up in them *must* be spam.
They then compare all incoming mail to those and matches are shuffled
into a webmail folder where you can check to see whether anything you
really wanted is in there. So far, they've been right on every single
one....and also caught in there over the last week have been maybe 20
of the fake Microsoft mails. Now, of the over 500 of them that I got,
that's a drop in the bucket, but it does mean that some manner of
random address generating was going on, it wasn't *all* Usenet
harvesting.

I've waffled on munging my address here for years, and never did
because I wanted people to be able to easily reply to Mietze about the
Jellicle Ball Honorees. But this last week has been so thoroughly
annoying, and your post reminded me that it's just going to get worse,
so I'm goin' for a very simple munge (after checking to be certain
that it's not a valid address).

Melissa
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[Seanette Blaylock]

Fred Williams > had some very
interesting things to say about Re: Doze silly Microsofting Security
hoomins!:

> One more thing. Notice that I add FFFf to my email address in my
>signature. It is also on my "reply to" and "from" fields in my
>header. All the bogus emails from the virus on other people's
>machines are going to this address and none are coming to my good
>email address. So this means that the virus is harvesting email
>addresses from Usenet postings. This is exactly why I "munge" my
>address when posting to Usenet. It would be even more effective if I
>were to put the FFFf in the domain side of the address, (i.e. to the
>right of the @ sign). Then the spam wouldn't even get to my mail
>server. I'll do that soon, for future spam diversion.

Uh, Uncle Fred, Mom has NEVER used her address on Usenet without the
spamblock, and she got swamped.

Felix, wondering why some things are working for some people and not
others

--
Felix, with help from his secretary/Mom

[Fred Williams]

Seanette Blaylock wrote:

> Fred Williams > had some very
> interesting things to say about Re: Doze silly Microsofting Security
> hoomins!:
>
>> One more thing. Notice that I add FFFf to my email address
>> in my
>>signature. It is also on my "reply to" and "from" fields in my
>>header. All the bogus emails from the virus on other people's
>>machines are going to this address and none are coming to my good
>>email address. So this means that the virus is harvesting email
>>addresses from Usenet postings. This is exactly why I "munge" my
>>address when posting to Usenet. It would be even more effective if
>>I were to put the FFFf in the domain side of the address, (i.e. to
>>the
>>right of the @ sign). Then the spam wouldn't even get to my mail
>>server. I'll do that soon, for future spam diversion.
>
> Uh, Uncle Fred, Mom has NEVER used her address on Usenet without the
> spamblock, and she got swamped.
>
> Felix, wondering why some things are working for some people and not
> others
>

OK, apparently there are other ways your address can get targetted.
I have been fortunate that only my munged address gets the spam. For
a while it was bothering me, but then I reset the "anybody" attribute
on my mailbox, (truth be told, my domain host, INET, has an excellent
support staff who did this for me), and all the spam stopped.
[with the "anybody" attribute set, my real address would get all the
spam that came to my domain and was not resolveable to a real
address, so I was getting the mail addressed to the munged address as
well.]

--
Regards
Fred
>
Remove FFFf to reply, please

[KS]

Fred Williams wrote:

> OK, apparently there are other ways your address can get targetted.
>I have been fortunate that only my munged address gets the spam. For
>a while it was bothering me, but then I reset the "anybody" attribute
>on my mailbox, (truth be told, my domain host, INET, has an excellent
>support staff who did this for me), and all the spam stopped.
> [with the "anybody" attribute set, my real address would get all the
>spam that came to my domain and was not resolveable to a real
>address, so I was getting the mail addressed to the munged address as
>well.]

A lot of the spam, the ones disguised as bounce messages, seem to come from
INET.
Kami


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email: furpods at mindspring dot com

[Fred Williams]

KS wrote:

> Fred Williams wrote:
>
>> OK, apparently there are other ways your address can get
>> targetted.
>>I have been fortunate that only my munged address gets the spam.
>>For a while it was bothering me, but then I reset the "anybody"
>>attribute on my mailbox, (truth be told, my domain host, INET, has
>>an excellent support staff who did this for me), and all the spam
>>stopped.
>> [with the "anybody" attribute set, my real address would get
>> [all the
>>spam that came to my domain and was not resolveable to a real
>>address, so I was getting the mail addressed to the munged address
>>as well.]
>
> A lot of the spam, the ones disguised as bounce messages, seem to
> come from INET.
> Kami
>

Really? That's curious. The worm has it's own SMTP, I believe, so I
guess anything's possible, but when I talked to INET they seemed to
be really on top of this stuff.

--
Regards
Fred
>
Remove FFFf to reply, please