oops... just saw this AFTER i started my own thread on the subject. yes, i am being clobbered by spam. i went from no spam to like 30-40 a day, all from fbi.gov and cia.gov spoofed addresses.
okay, now i'm getting wonderful "smtp mail failed" messages and messages about paris hilton and nicole richie.
grrrrrrrrrrraaaaaAAAAAGGGGHHHHH!
can i forward these to a reporting place to get the spoofers arrested? i've done it int he past, but it never seeemed to help. i have to assume these nimrods are sending out e-mails at such a fast pace, they'll eventually trace it back to them. but i want to hurry that process along (the "arresting them" part), if i can.
edit: seems it's actually the result of the W32/Sober worm... for the sorry ass that opens and runs the .exe file that's attached, it'll use its own smtp engine to send out e-mails, sppofing addresses like "fbi.gov," etc., with its semi-official sounding e-mail telling the recipient to open the attachment and, thereby, spread the worm.
so odds are, someone i know opened the damn thing, and also spread it to others in their address book... who probably ALSO had me in their adddress books, one of them probably opened the attachment, and so on, and so on, and so on...
we mac users may not be the root cause of crap like this, but god know, when stuff like this happens, we're still affected.
I got about 150 last night... and I never get spam on my .mac acct. and they are still coming....
GEEZ. Why can't they stop this?
i love the way fbi says never to open any e-mail from unknown sources, yet the worm is spoofing THEIR ADDRESS. if you can't trust an e-mail from the organization that's supposed to prevent stuff like this, who can you trust?
and it's the perfect text/address setup, too, to get maximum open-rate. if you feel you've been wrongly accused by the fbi via this e-mail, you'll open it to clear your name. if you've done something online that you're feeling guilty of *cough*pr0n*/cough*, then you'll open it too.
and of course, it seems to be forwarding addresses back to spammers to generate new e-mails.
Btw, I'm just migrating from Windows XP and haven't activated my .mac account yet.
Strangely I'm not getting any sober worm types on Windows, having suffered from everything else Windows brings with it.
Does using a router prevent this at all? I don't open email unless it's from people I know. When I'm curious to see what an unknown email contains, it goes straight into the spam box.
I wonder if anyone could recommend any protection so that I know before I set up my Mac to receive emails...
I would not worry about it so much, I did double click on the .zip file that is attached to them, but the Download window told me there was an application, so that's when I figured, ok this is a virus attack.
Just keep marking them as junk and thats it. It worked for me.
yeah, the spam surge stopped about 48 hrs into the attack. my guess is that there are some common telltale characteristics to attcks like these, and apple stopped it at the server (heck, they have to pay for the bandwidth and server spac hogged by this sort of thing, so aside from the customer p.r. issue, it just makes sense for apple to put a stop to it).
I think it helps to forward the crap to apple spam cops ([email protected]) as i did in this case. just fill up their mail box with the stuff and eventually, something will get done. Be sure to send the long header info.(instructions here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=151595
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It's in the News too.:
From the AP
http://apnews.excite.com/article/200...D8E17QU00.html
From the FBI, Comcast, and many others.
"SMTP_Error []
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out."
I forwarded it to .mac securtiy.
grrrrrrrrrrraaaaaAAAAAGGGGHHHHH!
can i forward these to a reporting place to get the spoofers arrested? i've done it int he past, but it never seeemed to help. i have to assume these nimrods are sending out e-mails at such a fast pace, they'll eventually trace it back to them. but i want to hurry that process along (the "arresting them" part), if i can.
edit: seems it's actually the result of the W32/Sober worm... for the sorry ass that opens and runs the .exe file that's attached, it'll use its own smtp engine to send out e-mails, sppofing addresses like "fbi.gov," etc., with its semi-official sounding e-mail telling the recipient to open the attachment and, thereby, spread the worm.
so odds are, someone i know opened the damn thing, and also spread it to others in their address book... who probably ALSO had me in their adddress books, one of them probably opened the attachment, and so on, and so on, and so on...
we mac users may not be the root cause of crap like this, but god know, when stuff like this happens, we're still affected.
GEEZ. Why can't they stop this?
Originally posted by Mandricard
I got about 150 last night... and I never get spam on my .mac acct. and they are still coming....
GEEZ. Why can't they stop this?
i love the way fbi says never to open any e-mail from unknown sources, yet the worm is spoofing THEIR ADDRESS. if you can't trust an e-mail from the organization that's supposed to prevent stuff like this, who can you trust?
and it's the perfect text/address setup, too, to get maximum open-rate. if you feel you've been wrongly accused by the fbi via this e-mail, you'll open it to clear your name. if you've done something online that you're feeling guilty of *cough*pr0n*/cough*, then you'll open it too.
and of course, it seems to be forwarding addresses back to spammers to generate new e-mails.
ugh.
Although I wonder if it was Mail's Junk Filter, which I applied to all of them.
Strangely I'm not getting any sober worm types on Windows, having suffered from everything else Windows brings with it.
Does using a router prevent this at all? I don't open email unless it's from people I know. When I'm curious to see what an unknown email contains, it goes straight into the spam box.
I wonder if anyone could recommend any protection so that I know before I set up my Mac to receive emails...
Just keep marking them as junk and thats it. It worked for me.