[mythtv-users] OT: Spam?

Petteri Matilainen pmatil at gmail.com
Wed Jul 30 13:03:37 UTC 2008



Brian Phillips wrote:
> 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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You're probably right. By examining message source, I found this: 
ABTS-KK-Dynamic-067.14.171.122.airtelbroadband.in. That is where it came 
from, I think. But, case closed. I may have to make a few filter rules 
that catch those, but not regular mythtv-users messages.

-P.M.


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