I also received them and deleted them. I also had a Email sent with a title for me not to send them emails.
But checking the email address it was not mine, which i also deleted.
Me too. A woman said for me to not to be sending her update emails because the link didn’t work and to reply in English. I only use the free home Avast. I have no mailing lists. I also got the emails in a few languages. I wonder what is going on.
I didn’t get anything so far…but yeah that’s a bit worrying, as if the forum database got hacked; this exactly happened on Compiz forums a few weeks ago, all members received spam mails. Hope it’s not that…happened to Compiz on smf…anyway, let’s wait and see…
edit: OK, the thing is I have email notifications disabled constantly, and if hackers use the forum, ie didn’t simply stole a list of members’ email addresses, this would explain why I didn’t get anything.
edit: these are just speculations on my side, nothing more atm…
edit: could also come from a hijacked registration process, from the UI…
I don’t think it is from ALWIL, the genuine iAVS update info is different, I know as I get it:
Delivered-To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Received: by 10.216.178.12 with SMTP id e12cs132498wem;
Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:13:14 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.87.42.33 with SMTP id u33mr3196839fgj.8.1264817580400;
Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:13:00 -0800 (PST)
Return-Path: <iavs-info-owner@lion.avast.com>
Received: from lion.avast.com (lion.avast.com [91.213.143.55])
by mx.google.com with ESMTP id d6si3239530fga.9.2010.01.29.18.12.57;
Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:13:00 -0800 (PST)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of iavs-info-owner@lion.avast.com designates 91.213.143.55 as permitted sender) client-ip=91.213.143.55;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of iavs-info-owner@lion.avast.com designates 91.213.143.55 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=iavs-info-owner@lion.avast.com
Received: from lion.avast.com (lion.avast.com [127.0.0.1])
by lion.avast.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o0U2Bv4d028682;
Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:11:57 +0100
Received: from localhost (mail@localhost)
by lion.avast.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with SMTP id o0U2AqCW027897;
Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:10:52 +0100
X-Authentication-Warning: lion.avast.com: mail owned process doing -bs
Received: by lion.avast.com (bulk_mailer v1.13); Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:44:27 +0100
Received: from lion.avast.com (lion.avast.com [127.0.0.1])
by lion.avast.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o0U1iQir004063;
Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:44:26 +0100
Received: (from majordomo@localhost)
by lion.avast.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id o0U1iQ1O004058;
Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:44:26 +0100
Received: from POLLUX.asw.cz ([192.168.1.9])
by lion.avast.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o0U1iPIu004039
for <iavs-info@asw.cz>; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:44:25 +0100
Message-Id: <201001300144.o0U1iPIu004039@lion.avast.com>
X-Mailer: avast! PushMail v1.0 (00095) (c)2003-2006 Jindrich Kubec, ALWIL Software
Subject: New iAVS update released
To: iavs-info@asw.cz
From: avast! support team <support@asw.cz>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:43:56 +0100
X-iAVS4-Push_2.0: vpsm-10013000-740F68DA026437808160B2340D92EB708BCF20D1A64889E7ACCAE9EA9E8968F6C601902FDC297BE7
X-iAVS4-Push_2: vpsm-10013000-740F68DA026437808160B2340D92EB708BCF20D1A64889E7ACCAE9EA9E8968F6C601902FDC297BE7
Sender: owner-iavs-info@asw.cz
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 100201-0, 02/01/2010), Inbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
New iAVS update (VPS 100130-0) for avast! program has been released recently.
Related information could be also found on our web site.
Note: This is a standard update
avast! support team
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avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean.
Virus Database (VPS): 100201-0, 02/01/2010
Tested on: 2/1/2010 3:28:51 PM
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I am very sorry, it was configuration issue on our new mail server.
When you subscribe for the virus database update notifications on our website, you are basically subscribed to the mailing list to which we are sending the notification. Unfortunately during migration of this mailing list to the new server we made a mistake in the configuration, so an confirmation e-mail with option to opt-out was sent. Additionally it was possible to reply to this e-mail and the reply was posted back to the iavs info subscribers. Very sorry for this.
