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

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com>]

In message <200306260325.h5Q3PP5U025759 () nic-naa net>, Eric Brunner-Williams in 
Portland Maine writes:
> > 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@Lev
> el3.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]

And I've gotten bounces from mail allegedly from me.  It's not L3's 
fault; this particular worm forges From: lines on its email.

Another day, another worm.

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
                http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)