Re: [Full-Disclosure] weird worm ?

From: Dennis Freise (cat_at_final-frontier.ath.cx)
Date: 12/30/03

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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 14:32:29 +0100

    On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 13:48:14 +0100
    vogt@hansenet.com wrote:

    > Hi everyone -
    >
    > For days now, I've been receiving weird messages, with a few lines of
    > apparently random, garbage text, like this:
    >
    > highest bailiff nomad father advise heir
    > oxygen honorarium allegro reveal wronskian indentation coachmen
    > deficient tribute arcturus mitigate bypath
    >
    >
    > Anyone got a clue what this is? There are no attachments to these mails, but
    > they keep coming in at a rate of about 1-2 per day, from different sources,
    > nobody I know really.
    >
    > Anyone else receiving this stuff?
    >
    > Makes neither sense as spam nor as a virus - no attachment, no product being
    > advertised. The only explanation I can come up with is hoping for people to
    > reply ("what?") and thus verifying addresses, but that doesn't fit to the
    > pattern of different senders.

    I think it's a way the spamers want to defeat spam-filters with
    learning capability. You get that mail, your spam-filter sees that it's not spam
    and adds it to its database. So that particular eMail-Adress gets lower scores
    the next time he sends you REAL spam, and the more likely the chances are that
    the spam actually reaches you.

    BTW: I'm not getting 1-2 per day of these, I'm getting about 30-50 of them.
    Kinda VERY annoying *** :( 

    -- 
Dennis Freise <cat@final-frontier.ath.cx>
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