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Date:	Thu, 22 Jul 2004 22:29:15 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Forum notify

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Bob wrote:
>
> ** Reply to message from "Steven Levine steve53@earthlink.net" on Thu, 22 Jul
> 2004 12:21:16 PDT7
>
> > The messages I saw were all from peter. Most likely the someone with a
> > virus is someone that has his address and scoug-programming in their
> > address book.
>
> That is why I gave the source as an IP and not an email address. Since the
> spam seems to have come from a ".my" high level domain I doubted that it came
> from Peter. Someone seems to have both this mailing list and Peter's email
> address in their address book. I posted the IP so that it may alert someone to
> scan their system for a virus.

My IP is 4.60.79.12 (DHCP but 24x7 so it doesn't change, at least on
Verizon).

We recently had similar incidents for Rollin and Rocky. I and Bob both
traced the "Rollin IP" to an ISP in Mexico.

I'm not convinced it's a virus on someone's machine, although it may
be. Personally I think it's sophisticated spam software of the kind
that sends a message from someone whose message you're likely to open,
i.e. an email address with the same domain or an email address gleaned
from the same web site or mail list. One reason I don't think it's a
spammer is because nobody on the SCOUG lists is based in Mexico (.mx)
thus there's nobody in Mexico who would have a SCOUG list in their
address book.

- Peter

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