Re: Today's neo-nazi spam

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 10:16:05PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 04:23:56PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>>On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 05:57:06PM -0500, Ren? Berber wrote:
>>>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>Just FYI,
>>>>
>>>>these latest postings (which are 99% already filtered by the spam
>>>>detection software on sourceware.org!) are the result of the most
>>>>recent version of the Sober worm, Sober.P.  Sober.P's only job was
>>>>apparently to download the next generation, Sober.Q into the infected
>>>>PCs.  Sober.Q contains all this neo-nazi mud which it sent today out
>>>>into the world.  All "From:" addresses in these postings are forged by
>>>>the worm.  A German computer magazine, c't, assumes that the date is
>>>>well planned to affect results of regional elections.  For more
>>>>information see http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/59562 (in
>>>>german).
>>>>
>>>>There's no reason to discuss anything related to this stuff, at least
>>>>not in this group.  Just get over it.
>>>
>>>Thanks for the info.
>>>
>>>I hope it this spamming stops soon...  and that everybosy on this list
>>>don't reply to the spam, just makes things worse.
>>
>>Yup yup, whatever we do, let's not generate extra traffic talking about
>>this.
>
>Definitely not.  Talking about the spam is exactly the wrong thing to do.
>
>I sure hope it stops soon.

Apparently it isn't stopping.

cgf