> There are several variants of Bagle, Netsky, and Sober floating > around. There was a new one announced just today. Each sends an > attachment of some sort around.
Hah, joy. My already spam-laden ISP mail address just received its first virus mail earlier, too. Now this is the curious part: 04:15 pm: *** DNS 81.102.255.118: cpc2-linc3-6-0-cust118.nott.cable.ntl.com That sender IP looks to be from a Nottingham ntl cable machine, near Lincoln. I wonder who up near Lincoln has my address? I hardly know any ntl cable users. I'm with ntl cable, so I don't know whether that had any part of the spread. Maybe I'll investigate into this later on. Generally, I just sigh and consign the messages to Deleted Items. > My biggest headache are not spams or viruses sent directly to me, but > undeliverable mail bounces and warnings of virus in emails that were > sent in my name. Yeah, I had a load of those recently - though I don't know why exactly. Some looked like a result of MyDoom, but again, all of them bore my real address - how did MyDoom get hold of my real e-mail address? Though MyDoom does trawl your IE cache for stuff, so maybe it's been searching for addresses in the pages in there? Strange stuff, these worms. The one that really drove a number of us nuts was the one that was rampant on the SlashNET IRC network - more "in your face" than e-mails. > Most are actually not for my personal account but public accounts like > postmaster and webmaster. I get regular spam to several such addresses at my domain. I set my personal address to be a catch-all, so that I can use any address I like and invent ones on the fly when I want to (a subdomain of mine uses an address that doesn't exist, for example). However, that means that I keep picking up mail directed to webmaster@, sales@ and even contact@, which is a pain. I've set sales@ to redirect everything to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (*evil grin*), and Webmaster auto-responds telling the sender to use the address found on the site (so one day I'll need to go clear that account out). I should really set webmaster@ to bounce to [EMAIL PROTECTED] too, seeing as my real address is plenty easy to find for any real visitors, and anyone mailing me at webmaster@ is a clueless fsck :P ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
