Re: [gentoo-user] Users hi!

[BRM <bm_witness@yahoo.com>]

> From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>

>Joshua Murphy wrote:
>>On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>>BRM wrote:
>>><snip spam> 
>>>Hey,
>>>Check this out:
>>>List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-desktop+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> Bye.   Dale :-)  :-) 
>>>P.S.  I wonder if he will get the hint.  LOL  
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! 
>>Probably not, since it looks like a fairly hands-off spam attempt,
      but I have to say, I'm rather amused by the attempt to spoof a
      Microsoft based site (in url and content) while spamming a Linux
      mailing list. It's first-line bait to pull someone into an 'online
      employment' scam, by the looks of it, with the added benefit of ad
      revenue from those who load that page with a standard browser.
>>
>>Poison [BLX]
>>Joshua M. Murphy
>Well, I did get a reply on another list.  He/she seems to have read
    it at least.  Maybe he/she got the idea.  
>As if anyone here would follow a link like that anyway.  It's not
    like we are a bunch of crazy folks here.  lol  
>
First, my apologies to this list. I had gotten it from someone else, but bypassed my better judgement in part thinking being on Linux with Firefox were solution enough, which interestingly they were not.
Now, the page itself is pretty benign but it provided the spammers a way to attack webmail sites - e.g. Yahoo! - and go through the address book and sent out their own e-mails. My guess is that it had to be a hack into Firefox to support it, but one not yet patched at least by Kubuntu (my work laptop, which I do keep up to date).

Ben