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Just for the information of those who might be interested and to let some of
you know what's really going on out there in relation to certain email
addresses, etc., I have included parts of an error message I received today.
You will note that the message purports to come from me, although it really
didn't, of course. It was also an attempt to plant a virus on Mozilla, but
it obviously failed. This is an example of a genuine error message, but it
serves as something of an instruction about why spammers are trying to use
fake error messages to infect your computers. It's easier to trick you into
clicking on a bad attachment than actually planting a virus on a server.
Finally, you will note way down at the end that there was an attachment to
the original message entitled "document.zip." That's the executable virus
file the person was trying to implant on Mozilla. I have left a few lines of
the return so you can see what happens to such files usually when they
encounter Listserv. Normally they are reduced to gibberish.
ECW
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SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT
TO:<browser_embedding_module@mozilla.org>:
host dm-mail02.mozilla.org [63.245.208.176]: 550 5.1.1
<browser_embedding_module@mozilla.org>:
Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual alias table
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