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BLU server and spam



Klez usually sends mail in html with a real file and then the virus
attached.  Generally it appears to be 1500+ lines of mail.  I was up
to about 50 Klez messages a day!  Once a Klez-filter was put in place,
I'm down to about 15 spam messages per day.  Not too bad, IMHO.

-derek

John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> writes:

> Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:
> 
> > Klez?  The email virus that's been going around?
> 
> I just looked it up on google. Yet another Windows virus, I see. I did
> notice a few messages that began with "TVqQAAMAAAAEAAAA"; is that Klez?
> However, most of the messages I referred to as spam were html payloads
> with subject lines about hot asian babes or penis enlargers or saving
> money on mortgages. I have exmh configured to defer rendering html, and
> I usually just delete them.
> 
> 
> -- 
> John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix 
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> 
> "The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."
> 
> 

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available




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