[Vorbis] What the heck? A Vorbis scam?

[Ralph Giles]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 08:40:18PM +0000, Ivo Gonçalves wrote:

> Just today I received a weird e-mail that contained a worm (WORM_GREW.A) 
> attached to it.

It's probably unrelated. After all the subject has nothing to do with 
the content. It's not unusual for worms to snip real text out of stored 
mail or the local browser cache and paste it into the body to help the 
payload get through spam filters. It's amazing how often that generates 
something that's personally interesting. The coincident birthdays 
effect, I guess.

> Received: from vinoth ([59.144.59.103]) by bay0-mc4-f5.bay0.hotmail.com 

You don't quote the whole header, but this ip address looks like 
a DSL line in india. Same country, but not on the same subnet as the 
vinjey.com domain or its mail server.

In short, it looks like a typical worm. It's all designed to encourage 
you to click on that attachment...

> I then read the FAQ at their site. Apparently their Vorbis encoder 
> supports bitrate peeler (or it's starting to), and offers DSP support 
> and whatever else.

Well, first I'd heard of the product. Let's all wish them luck!

 -r