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05-08-2008 10:09 AM
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CNN .com Daily top 10
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05-08-2008 10:15 AM
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05-08-2008 10:16 AM
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05-08-2008 10:24 AM
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http://usertools.plus.net/status/archive/1217927640.htm
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05-08-2008 11:40 AM
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First one looked convincing till I looked at the headers. Neither of us remembered subscribing to anything like that and thought it might be dodgy, which was why I looked!
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05-08-2008 11:50 AM
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05-08-2008 12:41 PM
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I've been getting similar ones before, on the pretence that there is some shocking news story and to watch a video. This links are sometimes to an .exe, which I assume is a bad .exe and not actually a video
However I notice some are .html and .php links. I assume those pages are trying to exploit a vulnerability within Windows to infect a machine with the same malware as what the .exe has? I looked at the HTML source, and sure enough all the <a href> tags were pointing elsewhere.
I must admit though, the CNN page was a more convincing effort than the simple 'news headline' ones.
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05-08-2008 2:23 PM
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Has anyone else been sent this spam to all their Plusnet email accounts?
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05-08-2008 2:48 PM
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05-08-2008 2:59 PM
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05-08-2008 4:54 PM
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05-08-2008 5:20 PM
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05-08-2008 5:53 PM
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My corporate postini account, provided by my employer, is picking up and blocking all these 'CNN.com Daily Top 10" type messages, so this could be another bug in the exim scripts
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05-08-2008 7:30 PM
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05-08-2008 8:43 PM
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Quote from: torside I have received several of these spam emails to all my Plusnet email accounts. I can see no way that some of these accounts have ever been made public - so how might this of happened?
Has anyone else been sent this spam to all their Plusnet email accounts?
Yes (most if not all), and to the catch all address too.
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