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Re: Today's neo-nazi spam


On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 05:57:06PM -0500, Ren? Berber wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Just FYI,
> > 
> > these latest postings (which are 99% already filtered by the spam detection
> > software on sourceware.org!) are the result of the most recent version of
> > the Sober worm, Sober.P.  Sober.P's only job was apparently to download the
> > next generation, Sober.Q into the infected PCs.  Sober.Q contains all this
> > neo-nazi mud which it sent today out into the world.  All "From:" addresses
> > in these postings are forged by the worm.  A German computer magazine, c't,
> > assumes that the date is well planned to affect results of regional elections.
> > For more information see http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/59562
> > (in german).
> > 
> > There's no reason to discuss anything related to this stuff, at least
> > not in this group.  Just get over it.
> 
> Thanks for the info.
> 
> I hope it this spamming stops soon... and that everybosy on this list don't
> reply to the spam, just makes things worse.

Yup yup, whatever we do, let's not generate extra traffic talking about this.


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