Somebody received this spam (or virus) too from the fedora users list?

Bryn M. Reeves bmr at redhat.com
Wed Jun 29 10:58:19 UTC 2011


On 06/29/2011 07:42 AM, Joachim Backes wrote:
> There is an attached zip "message.zip" file containing a Win executable!
> I removed it.
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:20:05 +0400
> From: archive at mail-archive.com
> Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
> 
> Dear user of lists.fedoraproject.org, administration of
> lists.fedoraproject.org would like to let you know the following.
> 
> Your account was used to send a large amount of unsolicited commercial
> email messages during the last week.
> Obviously, your computer was infected and now contains a trojan proxy
> server.
> 
> Please follow the instructions in the attached text file in order to
> keep your computer safe.
> 
> Best regards,
> The lists.fedoraproject.org team.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------

Forged headers and a body designed to con unwary users into running the
attachment on their Windows PC in order to infect it.

The Fedora infrastructure administrators tend not to send mail from
"archive at mail-archive.com".

With the full headers you might be able to figure out more about where it came
from but I didn't receive a copy at all so I'm doubtful it even passed through
the lists infrastructure (you can put more-or-less anything you like in the
Reply-to and to fields of an email).

Regards,
Bryn.



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