Re: OT: email hijacked?

Roger Mills wrote:
> I am suddenly receiving multiple bounce-o-grams, mailing error, "here's your
> password/registration" type messages-- 5-6 on Sun. Mon., over 70 on Tues.
> Norton detects no virus but I'm worried. What to do? Anyone else??
>
> All are 73 KB with an "info.zip" attachment (not opened!) and contain the
> same gibberish and long strings of A's, AFAICT from the headers
>
I just checked my spam folder and I see half a dozen messages all with
the subject "Your email was blocked", all 73 KB long. This isn't an
atypical amount of spam for me, so I wouldn't have noticed anything
unusual about it. Probably some spammer has got their hands on a
membership list for this group. Unfortunately I get these sorts of
messages so frequently that I've given up caring about them; it's not
worth my time, so I use POPFile to filter out whatever spam gets through
my ISP's SpamAssassin filter.

http://popfile.sourceforge.net/

I've been getting a 99.74% accuracy with POPFile since the last time I
reset the statistics (February of last year). Unfortunately, I've had a
couple of false positives in that time (messages that POPFile labels as
spam even though they're not), but nothing really critical. Still, every
once in a while I skim over the subject lines in the spam folder to see
if anything looks like genuine mail.

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