{"id":2089,"date":"2004-06-16T08:53:02","date_gmt":"2004-06-16T15:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/06\/16\/2089.html"},"modified":"2004-06-16T08:53:02","modified_gmt":"2004-06-16T15:53:02","slug":"the-latest-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/06\/16\/the-latest-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest virus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I've been getting a huge amount of virus-laden mail lately, apparently all carrying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/vinfo\/virusencyclo\/default5.asp?VName=PE_ZAFI.B\">PE_ZAFI.B<\/a>.  I got 1500 of them the other day, mostly addressed to various randomly generated addresses at hwaet.org, one of the domains I host; since then, there have been bursts of a few hundred at a time, and a burst of 800 in the last 8 hours or so.<\/p>\n<p>I should probably do the same thing for my domains that I set up for Mary Anne's, where all mail to addresses other than the expected ones gets silently discarded.  (That would also discard the occasional messages that I get that are intended for someone real, but that were just sent to the wrong address.  There's someone out there whose friends and business associates think has a kith.org address.  I'd rather <em>not<\/em> silently discard those, but maybe I'll set those to bounce instead.)<\/p>\n<p>But I like the \"any username at kith goes to me\" thing, and I hate silently discarding anything.  It might be important!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well.  Sometimes sacrifices must be made in the War Against Spam.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been getting a huge amount of virus-laden mail lately, apparently all carrying PE_ZAFI.B. I got 1500 of them the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}