[mythtv-users] OT: Spam?

Brian Phillips brian.phillips at gmx.net
Wed Jul 30 12:44:17 UTC 2008


Marc Randolph wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Petteri Matilainen
> <pmatil at gmail.com> wrote: 
>> Just received a mail from mythtv-users at mythtv.org, titled
>> "[mythtv-users] Anjelina Jolie XXX Video Free." Why does mythtv list
>> send spam? The mail says I have subscribed to MSN featured offers. I
>> didn't know I did, and even if I had, this is clearly a virus-spam
>> message. How to disable these in the future? List configuration
>> doesn't say anything about this.
> 
> The email almost certainly has a forged header in attempts to get
> past your spam filters.  In other words, if you go to "Show Original"
> and study the header, you will likely find it didn't actually come
> from mythtv.org at all.   

The thing that makes the email the most suspect is it has the prepended
"[mythtv-users]" in the subject line.  I've gotten spam with the subject
line "Anjelina Jolie XXX Video Free." in the past and I think the header
could have easily been forged to make it seem like it came from the address
mythtv-users at mythtv.org.  But the fact that it also has the subject line
modified in the same manner as regular list messages is highly suspect that
it wasn't the listserv that processed the email.

Brian



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