Receiving Bogus TMs

Today, I've received two of the same TMs. Don't know whether it's an attempt
to try to send a virus, or some clown who's trying to play a trick.

As to my regular TMs, I get a daily weather report from Yahoo, and an
occasional TM from my daughter. I've never TMed anyone.

The TM is titled HASH and contains the following, when opening it up.

HASH (0x8f40cc8)
--------------END-----------
That's it. No more, no less

Bob

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Bob Smith wrote:
> Today, I've received two of the same TMs. Don't know whether it's an attempt
> to try to send a virus, or some clown who's trying to play a trick.
>
> As to my regular TMs, I get a daily weather report from Yahoo, and an
> occasional TM from my daughter. I've never TMed anyone.
>
> The TM is titled HASH and contains the following, when opening it up.
>
> HASH (0x8f40cc8)

I'm pretty sure this is just a spam and not a virus. Virii, these days,
generally have attachments, and I've gotten a couple spams with that content or
similar content, with no attachments.


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On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:02:30 +0000, Bob Smith wrote:

> Today, I've received two of the same TMs. Don't know whether it's an attempt
> to try to send a virus, or some clown who's trying to play a trick.
>
> As to my regular TMs, I get a daily weather report from Yahoo, and an
> occasional TM from my daughter. I've never TMed anyone.
>
> The TM is titled HASH and contains the following, when opening it up.
>
> HASH (0x8f40cc8)
> --------------END-----------
> That's it. No more, no less
>
> Bob

That looks like a hash reference that hasn't been de-referenced to the
actual object in perl. So most likely it was spam someone has a perl
script running through and didn't call the print function against the hash
correctly. Instead of doing something like $hash_ref->{blah} or using the
$$ syntax they just did print stream $hash_ref causing it to print the
object's type, a non-blessed hash, and it's memory address. So on the
bright side you have stupid spammers who can't even run a perl script with
the strict checking module. Tho on the downside these same spammers have
your number/email and are probably re-running it to debug the error
several times(sending the email out while doing it) until they fix it.
Which means more pointless emails.

"Central" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news[email protected]...
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:02:30 +0000, Bob Smith wrote:
>
> > Today, I've received two of the same TMs. Don't know whether it's an
attempt
> > to try to send a virus, or some clown who's trying to play a trick.
> >
> > As to my regular TMs, I get a daily weather report from Yahoo, and an
> > occasional TM from my daughter. I've never TMed anyone.
> >
> > The TM is titled HASH and contains the following, when opening it up.
> >
> > HASH (0x8f40cc8)
> > --------------END-----------
> > That's it. No more, no less
> >
> > Bob
>
> That looks like a hash reference that hasn't been de-referenced to the
> actual object in perl. So most likely it was spam someone has a perl
> script running through and didn't call the print function against the hash
> correctly. Instead of doing something like $hash_ref->{blah} or using the
> $$ syntax they just did print stream $hash_ref causing it to print the
> object's type, a non-blessed hash, and it's memory address. So on the
> bright side you have stupid spammers who can't even run a perl script with
> the strict checking module. Tho on the downside these same spammers have
> your number/email and are probably re-running it to debug the error
> several times(sending the email out while doing it) until they fix it.
> Which means more pointless emails.

Thanks for the replies Steve & Central. It may be a case that SPCS's TM
server is striping out anything that looks out of the norm in the TMs.

Bob

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:32:24 +0000, Bob Smith wrote:
>
> Thanks for the replies Steve & Central. It may be a case that SPCS's TM
> server is striping out anything that looks out of the norm in the TMs.
>
> Bob

I wouldn't think that from what you have presented. Unless sprintpcs TM
server is written in a very bad perl script that hash mark would have to
be a message from who ever sent it to you. Sounds like they just shifted
all the spam/crap they wanted to send you into a hash and when they went
to send it well they didn't de-reference it so you got your result. If
that is the case there would be nothing bad for sprintpcs to strip out.