To those people receiving bogus emails: is the mail addressed to you
individually or is the mail being distributed to you via Hockey-L.  My
address book has very addresses for individuals on this list.  If
email is being sent to your individual email addresses, that might
indicate that Hockey-L's subscription list has been compromised.


On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 16:57:56 -0500, Mark Lewin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Just to assure everyone,  in my retirement, I have not taken to
> sending spam. So far, I have received 1 email from polarcomm.net
> informing me that [log in to unmask] attempted to send a virus to
> [log in to unmask]
>
> For starters, my alum.rpi.edu is still valid but is set to autoforward
> to my new email address at gmail.com.  I did that last fall when my
> RPI alumni free-for-life email suddenly morphed into my RPI alumni
> $14.95 per year address.  Mail sent to that address gets forwarded to
> me but I am unable to send from it.
>
> Also,  my PC is behind a hardware router/firewall, I have a software
> firewall, run McAfee AV software all the time and run Ad-Aware and
> Spybot with up-to-date spyware lists at least once a week.  Can my PC
> have been compromised? Possibly.  I'm not dumb enough to think that
> I'm a security expert. I find it kind of strange that several people
> have mentioned that they've received large amounts of spam in recent
> days. The only spam I've gotten has been the note stating that I sent
> an infected email.
>
> If anyone has another idea of how I can better protect my PC, I'm
> always ready to listen
>
>
> On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 10:40:41 -0800, Anthony J. Buffa <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Exactly and I dont even think Mark uses that address any more or at best
> > uses it to forward to his real address.
> >
> > I have gotten the same content as Bill (below) but only in drips and
> > drabs, not 100s maybe a dozen
> >
> > Tony Buffa
> >
> > ======
> >
> > [log in to unmask] wrote:
> >
> > >    For instance, the most recent one is purportedly from
> > >[log in to unmask], a long-time poster on HOCKEY-L.  I'm confident that
> > >Mark is probably not even aware that his e-mail address is being used in an
> > >unauthorized fashion.
> > >
> > >    The message reads: "Hi.  Did you get the previous document I attached
> > >for you?  I resent it in this email just incase, because I really need you
> > >to check it out asap."
> > >
> > >    My Norton anti-virus software has been intercepting all of these
> > >attachments, but it's become a real nuisance as the number of bogus messages
> > >continues to escalate.
> > >
> > >
> > >Bill Corrigan
> > >
> > >LET'S GO BRUNO!
> > >
> > >
> >
>