FYI, Malware at Fedora-RedHat.COM ...

Brian Fahrlander brian at fahrlander.net
Mon Oct 25 00:25:27 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 18:30, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> FYI, I received an e-mail from the U of Texas at Arlington (see e-mail
> header portion in the first post below) that gave me instructions on a
> patch.  I haven't tried it, but given the approach, I can only assume
> it's some sort of malware.  It's a rather lame attempt too.
> 
> At first I thought it just was someone in a LUG messing with me.  I
> didn't want to turn this stuff over to Red Hat if it was just an
> individual having fun with only me.  But it appears that people on the
> OpenBSD list have been getting them too.
> 
> I'm sure the trademark in the domain name makes this easy if all other
> attempts to shut the site down fail.
> 
> Posts to LEAPLIST/NTLUG I made with more details (including the e-mail
> header):  
>  http://lists.leap-cf.org/pipermail/leaplist/2004-October/040716.html
> http://ntlug.org/pipermail/discuss/Week-of-Mon-20041018/022702.html
> 
> First confirmation that it is public:  
>  http://lists.leap-cf.org/pipermail/leaplist/2004-October/040722.html
> http://ntlug.org/pipermail/discuss/Week-of-Mon-20041018/022705.html
> 
> Other follow-ups:  
>  http://lists.leap-cf.org/pipermail/leaplist/2004-October/040717.html
> http://lists.leap-cf.org/pipermail/leaplist/2004-October/040719.html
> http://ntlug.org/pipermail/discuss/Week-of-Mon-20041018/022703.html
> 
> The actual site:  
>  http://www.fedora-redhat.com/  

    Good man, for reporting it. It's good to pass around this kind of
information.

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