mimus said:I don't know exactly what happened, but an acquaintance got borked and
somehow it ended up with me being sent an invitation supposedly from him
to join shtyle.fm (and get a free "teddy" . . . ).
This obviously means his email collection (I don't think I'm in his
address book) was used as a source of addresses.
I see no reference using Google Web, Groups or Blogs to anything of this
nature.
I did see some references on SANS IIRC that some fairly common viruses
come in a variety of strains due to simple re-jiggering that might be
behind this.
Is anyone seeing any such reports or for that matter suspicious shtyle.fm
email traffic surges?
Send this to him (it will keep him busy for a while anyway)Again, he didn't _give_ my email address to anyone . . . .
Something wicked obviously went trawling through his email program's email
database.
What that something was is still unclear-- he's got some people looking at
it, but I haven't heard what the diagnosis on the spot is.
And the gleeful sending out of invitations to shtyle.fm is downright
weird, although I see that they have at least some rep for spamming if no
worse already.
Starting with switching from Windows, yes.
But let's not get into that.