On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 11:21, Dennis Myers wrote: > Wow, I have been getting email with the blaster worm attached by the bucket > full. All addressed to the business email address or saying that my send > failed to soandso because the attached file has a worm. And the so called > contaminated file is attached. Funny though I use kmail with firewalls one on > the machine and one on the router and none of the addresses that I supposedly > sent the worm to are in or ever have been in my address book. A ruse or will > kmail or linux somehow transmit a worm to an unknown email address? Any one > have an idea what is going on and or seen this type of email before? I can > find no indication that I have the blaster worm. And if I did why would it > work? Time for a disk wipe? TIA for any advice.
Blaster scans IP addresses and then uses a built-in tftp server to transmit itself to another machine; it can't do it on linux - because it can't run on linux. Windows only. -- Wed Aug 20 17:20:01 EST 2003 17:20:01 up 2 days, 19:46, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.02 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ | illawarra computer services | | /-oo /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ & RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * "Calling J-Man Kink. Calling J-Man Kink. Hash missile sighted, target Los Angeles. Disregard personal feelings about city and intercept." -- The Firesign Theatre movie, _J-Men Forever_
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