RE: Weird email messages with "re:movie" and "re:application" in the subject line..

[Mark Segal <MSegal () Corporate FCIBroadband com>]

Here the best link I have seen so far... Thanks to kevin day..

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sobig.e () mm html


My guess is they might need to upgrade it to more than 55-999 infections :).

mark


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Mark Segal 
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FCI Broadband 
Tel: 905-284-4070 
Fax: 416-987-4701 
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Futureway Communications Inc. is now FCI Broadband


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine [mailto:brunner () nic-naa net] 
Sent: June 25, 2003 11:25 PM
To: Larry Rosenman
Cc: Mark Segal; 'nanog () merit edu'; brunner () nic-naa net
Subject: Re: Weird email messages with "re:movie" and "re:application" in
the subject line.. 



> W32/sobig.e@MM per McAffee.....

I seem to have done one better ... according to a M$ host in Level3-land,
the Unix box right in front of me sent the mail in question.

Someone at L3 needs to call home. The only L3 turd in my mail log is their
inbound...

Jun 25 18:21:11 nic-naa sm-mta[24589]: h5PMLB5U024589:
from=<administrator () Level3 com>, size=1711, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<012d01c33b68$2bd14b40$d706010a () corp global level3 com>, proto=ESMTP,
daemon=MTA, relay=machine77.Level3.com [209.244.4.106]

Cheers,
Eric
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Sender = brunner () nic-naa net
Recipient(s) = ops () genuity com
Subject = Re: Movie
Scanning time = 06/25/2003 16:21:49

Action on file blocking:
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Attachment blocked due to extension match of .bat, .eml, .nws, .pif, .scr,
.src, .shs, .vbe, .vbs, .com, or .exe.

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