Re: Re: Possible virus/worm sender?

From: andy levy (andy-dml@levyclan.us)
Date: Fri Aug 15 2003 - 21:36:26 EDT


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http://static.samspade.org/spamarrest.html
http://petemoss.com/spamflames/spamarrest.html
http://www.politechbot.com/p-04461.html

Michael Steele wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am the mysterious msteele@signbiz.com. I can assure you I have not been
> sending the virus/worm to any of you. I work in the tech industry and I
> have spent all week helping people that have been infected by it.
>
> I have been lurking on this list for a few months now since I just purchased
> a new Dakota Quad Cab at the end of May and the collective knowledge of the
> group has been an invaluable asset to me. I thank all of you.
>
> I recently started using the spam arrest and I did add the list to my
> authorized list, however some of you seem to get "lost" and have been
> getting the message originally stated in this thread. I had no idea that
> spam arrest collected addresses and then sent spam to people who verify. I
> guess I should have suspected something like that to happen. I guess I was
> just to gullible.
>
> I am truly sorry for any incontinence this has caused to any of you. I had
> hoped my first post to the group would have been helpful to someone and that
> I would have made a better impression than this.
>
> Michael Steele
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net]On Behalf Of Bill Pitz
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 9:03 PM
> To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
> Subject: Re: DML: Re: Possible virus/worm sender?
>
>
>
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:01:38 -0400, jbattles@bankfinancial.com ("Josh
> Battles") wrote:
>
>>"Bill Pitz" <dakota@billpitz.com> wrote in message
>>news:5j4ojvgktoaccjcj9q1k31o44o1c7a1tss@4ax.com...
>>
>>>Sadly, I've got about two dozen users who have signed up for it and
>>>are using it. To make matters worse, it pops their e-mail every 2
>>>minutes around the clock. *sigh*
>>>
>>>-Bill
>>
>>What do you mean that it pops their email every 2mins?
>
>
> The way it works is that you have a pop account on their server.
> Their server, in turn, pops your e-mail from your existing mail
> account every 2 minutes (you provide them with your username/password
> and mail server) and filters it.
>
>
>>it would have been nice to not have found out firsthand.
>
>
> I know :-/
>
> -Bill
>
>
>

-- 
-andy

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