Hello all,
Somebody has hijacked my old e-mail address, and virus-infected e-mails
are being sent out, apparently from my e-mail.
If you get anything from [EMAIL PROTECTED], delete it without
even opening it. I am not using that address for outgoing e-mail, so it
is not from me.
The infected
At 15:37 20.08.2003 -0400, Kerry wrote:
Somebody has hijacked my old e-mail address, and virus-infected e-mails
are being sent out, apparently from my e-mail.
I think that current mail virus (or is it a worm?) sobig-F sends it's
infected mails with a forged sender info which it picks randomly
I think that current mail virus (or is it a worm?)
It's a worm.
sobig-F sends it's
infected mails with a forged sender info which it picks
randomly from the
number of email addresses it finds on a infected
outlook/windows address book.
That's consistent with what I've seen. I've
At 16:23 20.08.2003 -0400, you wrote:
This is a nasty one.
www.messagelabs.com/viruseye shows worldwide stats and displays them
graphically. They have to adjust the scale every some hours ...
best regards
Daniel Plaenitz
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On Wednesday, Aug 20, 2003, at 16:47 America/Chicago, Colin Holgate
wrote:
This is a nasty one.
www.messagelabs.com/viruseye shows worldwide stats and displays them
graphically. They have to adjust the scale every some hours ...
I went there and it crashed my Netscape. I had to restart. Oh the
You have to disregard the from address. That's totally fakeable. The
only thing trustworthy is the source IP address.
We have separate accounts here (like [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc.). It's amusing to see
our tech support account receive email from [EMAIL
People need to learn quickly that polymorphic virii are here to stay and
they almost never actually look like who really got infected.
roymeo
At 03:37 PM 8/20/2003 -0400, you wrote:
Hello all,
Somebody has hijacked my old e-mail address, and virus-infected e-mails
are being sent out,
