Tuesday, December 2. 2003
MIMAIL-L turns your computer into a anti-anti-spam weapon
A new variant of MIMAIL not only mass-mails itself to everyone you've ever known online, but then turns it's attention to launching Denial-of-service attacks agains major Anti-Spam sites.The virus comes as an attachment called wendy.zip, purporting to be pornographic pictures of someone named Wendy.
It attacks multiple sites including SpamCop, SPEWS and Spamhaus, as well as Disn'ey's GO website (why, I don't know).
And THEN, it gets nasty:
If, for any reason, Mimail-L fails to propagate correctly it sends an alternative email (without a viral attachment) claiming that the recipient's credit card details have been debited, and that a selection of child porn CDs will be delivered via the post. Users are given the email address of a reputable anti-spam organisation if they wish to 'cancel' this bogus kiddie porn order
ouch. Spammers are scum.
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