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Getting the Netsky virus from... Radicati!

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I receive a number of Netsky viruses (at least that's what I think they are) in my Yahoo account, and they always get routed to my bulk mail folder.  Sometimes I recognize the address/domain they come from, and sometimes I don't.  But today's latest delivery of a Netsky email was just too rich...  I'm not knowledgeable enough to tell if it actually came from Radicati or if it was forged...  Still, way too funny to get something like this from such a "respected analyst in messaging systems"...  

From announcements-mailer@radicati.com Thu Jun 23 04:08:43 2005
X-Apparently-To: twduff@yahoo.com via 206.190.38.137; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 03:55:06 -0700
X-YahooFilteredBulk: 82.193.12.209
X-Originating-IP: [82.193.12.209]
Return-Path: <announcements-mailer@radicati.com>
Authentication-Results: mta141.mail.re2.yahoo.com from=radicati.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 82.193.12.209 (EHLO yahoo.com) (82.193.12.209) by mta141.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 03:55:06 -0700
From: announcements-mailer@radicati.com  
To: twduff@yahoo.com
Subject: Delivery failure notice (ID-00000326)
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 13:08:43 +0200
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0008_000005A4.000062B9"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
Content-Length: 18187




--- Mail Part Delivered ---
220 Welcome to [yahoo.com]
Mail type: multipart/related
--- text/html RFC 2504
MX [Mail Exchanger] mx.mt2.kl.yahoo.com
Exim Status OK.

New message is available.


Comments

Gravatar Image1 - Actually, this is part of the "marketing plan." The Plan? Don't be posting entries about them. Stop that, and the viruses stop.

Gravatar Image2 - "bull dinkies"... I like that!

Gravatar Image3 - The originating IP comes from somewhere in Verona, Italy ... http://www.whois.sc/82.193.12.209

Still, it is amusing that someone is spoofing the Radicati announcement list.

Gravatar Image4 - "Remember Radicati",

Enter in iWatch "The Radicati Group". You will be amazed out at how much bull dinkies that company spews out. They simply throw numbers out for industry to react too.

What goes around comes around.

There time will come.



Stevie Wonder

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