I just got this virus in my inbox…
From noreply@hamusutaa.com Tue Mar 30 10:36:34 2004
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 08:17:19 -0800
From: noreply@hamusutaa.com
To: AScheffl@hamusutaa.com
Subject: E-mail account disabling warning.
Dear user, the management of Hamusutaa.com mailing system wants to let you know that,
Some of our clients complained about the spam (negative e-mail content)
outgoing from your e-mail account. Probably, you have been infected by
a proxy-relay trojan server. In order to keep your computer safe,
follow the instructions.
Further details can be obtained from attached file.
In order to read the attach you have to use the following password: 23106.
The Management,
The Hamusutaa.com team https://hamusutaa.com
[ Part 2, Application/OCTET-STREAM (Name: "Readme.zip") 2bytes. ]
[ Unable to print this part. ]
There’s a management team at hamusutaa.com? Am I paying them? Are they going to shut down my email? Are they the ones secretly running my life? Maybe I should open up the zip file and find out!
Errrr… no.
My wife got something like that too. Last we checked were were the only “team” running that domain..^^
HAH! I love your icon! I will eat it! Oyster crackers! or are they some other thing, that look like oyster crackers?
yup, those are oyster crackers. Took that pic eating my dinner once.
i still use pine as well… coz i’m too lazy to find a warez copy of office hehe
Why not use thunderbird?
For that matter, add OpenOffice, too.
I get stuff like this all the time from my own domains. It’s funny!
Eudora!
I got something like this for oldcrows.net too. Yeah, I’ll go and put in that password and get that virus. 🙂 DURRR 🙂 Right… 🙂
I use pine too. I’m all for progress, but when it comes to email, I just want text. No embedded pictures. No flash animation. Just text. Pine suffices.
Thanks for the warning, Andy. I’ll check out raider3.com asap before funneling it all into Outlook. I’ve already went through enough fun upgrading Norton AntiVirus to the 2004 version, and two full scans, not counting the MyDoom removal tool last night. Not gonna fall for this one.
Pine
Wow. It’s been a while since I used PINE. (I keep getting this urge to say, PINE is not ELM. There, I’ve said it.)
Well, I’ve got you all beat. I’ve, at times, opened up the RFC for the protocol and done email by hand over a raw connection.
Mutt roxors my boxors.
(And like Mr. Klortho, I’ve done (and still do actually) done plenty of raw SMTP by hand…)