nyms being attacked by malware

[Eric Murray]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:16:11AM +0100, privacy.at Anonymous Remailer wrote:
> I've noticed a very high increase of incoming virii and malicious code of
> various sorts to one of my nyms. Since the nym is not used anywhere
> publically I really wonder if these are deliberate attacks to try to
> compromise the machines of people using nyms to protect their identity. Is
> this something that's a known strategy somehow? Obviously it could also be
> that the nym was previously used by someone else online and that's partly
> why it would be interesting to hear other's comments on this.

Spammers probe SMTP servers for valid names using dictionary attacks.

It's difficult to set up an SMTP server that will
accept mail for an address and not also give up
the information that the address is valid.