Spam?
Today I got a handful of mails that only contained:
<br /> <b>Fatal error</b>: Call to undefined function: imagecreatefromgif() in <b>/var/www/html/spamw/img.php</b> on line <b>4</b><br />
Different (forged..) From: addresses and the spanw folder suggest that this is a misconfigured spammer script. And the first hit on Google Groups shows an obvious spam mail with such error messages...
But building a real mass-mailer in PHP - capable of sending x-million mails in the shortest time possible? Unlikely. Installing PHP on thousands of zombie hosts to abuse them for spam sending? Unlikely, too.
Obviously spammers don't use perfect software either. Good to know.- Written on January, 25 2005 at 11:51
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