[SpamCop-List] Re: Yahoo Groups?

[Mr. Smith]

"Daniel W. Johnson" <panoptes at iquest.net> wrote in message 
news:1gvqs8r.1b4xbfhl3gkuqN%panoptes at iquest.net...
> Mr. Smith <spamtrap at mrsmith.com> wrote:
>
>> A "message" just got bounced back to me as rejected. Within the message 
>> is a
>> Netsky virus. This looks like an attempt to spread a virus via Yahoo 
>> Groups.
>> I assume my address got picked up from some spammers list or Outlook 
>> address
>> book.
>
> It might be even simpler from that.  Netsky seems to send to addresses
> harvested from various files, including archived email and cached web
> pages; it doesn't use such sources only for spoofing the from address.
> Anyone with Yahoo group messages on their system will have the
> unsubscribe address in their archive.  Some groups are configured to
> also include the subscribe address at the bottom of each message, or the
> subscribe address is likely to be in the browser cache if the user has
> recently visited the group's home page.
> -- 
> Daniel W. Johnson


Makes sense, that's why Yahoo sent both a subscribe confirmation and an 
unsubscribe confirmation for the same group