Re: [Evolution] Mail Delivery (failure evolution ximian com)

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 13:30 +0100, James Ascroft-Leigh wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 20:15 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 00:25 +0100, James Ascroft-Leigh wrote:
> > > All,
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 09:57 +0900, fejj ximian com wrote:
> > > > If the message will not displayed automatically,
> > > > follow the link to read the delivered message.
> > > >
> > > > Received message is available at:
> > > > www.ximian.com/inbox/evolution/read.php?sessionid-8463 
> > > >  
> > >
> > > I am using the 1.5.7 build from Debian unstable + experimental.  The
> > [snip]
> >
> > Did you get this email privately, or via the ML?  This reminds me of
> > the social engineering I've seen on some recent viruses.
>
> It appeared to come from the evolution mailing list but, of course, that
> may be forged.  Another likely explanation is that some virus scanner
> quarantined it.

That's what the social engineer wants you to think.  Do a "Show
Email Source" on the original mail, and I bet that the ximian.com
"link" is really a phony, that runs a virus, or sends you to a
different website.

>                If other people have not seen it I can obfuscate the
> message to get it around the scanners and repost.

-- 
Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>