[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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