[Mimedefang] Mail from Yahoo
Kevin A. McGrail
kmcgrail at pccc.com
Sun Jan 8 15:34:42 EST 2006
Well, I think you are missing that these zombie computer networks are being
used as spambots that are controlled by a central source. While the
addresses might look weird, a good amount of them will get stopped by the 4
methods I mentioned.
Perhaps just count it as a highly ineffective dictionary attack ;-)
Regards,
KAM
> It's not so much a dictionary attack, at least not to me. They're all
> coming to recipients that resemble a message ID, as opposed to some name
> like some viruses use. Like, the message SENDER is simon at yahoo.com, or
> hugh at yahoo.com, and try to deliver TO 39cfb48a.4880c845 at pcraft.com, which
> is of course invalid.
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