[Zope] another worm

[J Cameron Cooper]

Julia Phipps wrote:

> another worm was attached to this email... and if it's my email 
> server, then why do these worms only come attached to emails sent from 
> zope-request at zope.org <mailto:zope-request at zope.org>?
>  
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* zope-request at zope.org <mailto:zope-request at zope.org>
>     *To:* zope at zope.org <mailto:zope at zope.org>
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, February 03, 2004 7:40 AM
>     *Subject:* Zope Digest, Vol 7, Issue 3
>
Possibly it is copying a message on the infected computer and spoofing 
the sender. Or, more likely, some infected computer is replying to 
messages on that machine but spoofing your address and you're getting 
the reply from the zope list manager program. I couldn't nail this down 
for certain without looking at the source of that message and doing some 
experiments with digests and sending mail to that address, but I'll bet 
it's something along those lines. I doubt there's even a person who can 
send messages through zope-request at zope.org and I also doubt that the 
Mailman program is cracked and sending out virus-laden messages.

       --jcc

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