Receiving Bogus TMs

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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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"Central" <spam2@central.2y.net> wrote in message
newsan.2005.03.16.06.18.19.726967@central.2y.net...
> 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