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RE: [cobalt-users] Spam

At 07:21 PM 8/19/2003, you wrote:

I have clients on my server emailing me as well asking me what is going on
cause the emails are from "Administrator" and are to do with email. Is
everyone having problems today like this or just RaQ servers? Here is what
they are getting (With attachment of virus obviously not included here).
most of your clients are not reading the email. Yes it is from the administrator, but it is not likely from your domain. They are returned emails, refused emails, and gracious antivirus programs sending them. I turned it off early on in mailscanner as so many of these virus' are using a bogus from address. I saw one out of hundreds from ucla.edu that actually explained and apologized for the the email. 

Ask the customer to actually open the email and read the whole from .


> Hello there,
>
> I would like to inform you about important information regarding your
> email address. This email address will be expiring.
> Please read attachment for details.
>
> ---
> Best regards,
> Administrator


Chris C.
DeSignCo.Canada


-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dan Kriwitsky
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 8:11 PM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Spam


>
> Looks like someone wrote the virus to send itself to the
> "site-mgr" email address on the RAQ server which in turn
> emails this to every site admin username on the raq. All my
> customers, who hold site admin usernames, are complaining
> about getting massive emails like these today.
>
> How can this email address be turned off on the Raq?
>

Are you sure that's not an alias your user has? The virus usually pulls
from the infected PC. Maybe the address book or the web cache.
--
C2003 Dan Kriwitsky

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