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Re: email virus ==> over the top
From: JC Dill <nanog () vo cnchost com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:00:09 -0700
At 08:10 AM 8/21/2003, neal rauhauser wrote:
No one loves me and I don't get much email from the folks who tolerate me. I just got back from having lunch with some guys who tolerate me and I found scads of messages from all over -the funniest among the bunch for our Nanog readers: <user>@cisco.com <user>@tacnet.com <user>@wcom.com <user>@sprint.com Looks like my internetwork equipment vendor and my two favorite peers have their Windoze stuff in a complete state of 'higgledy piggledy' - a technical term from Bloom County cartoons, for those not old enough to remember.
Today's problem virus forges the "from" field. So all those emails "from" <user>@cisco/tacnet/wcom/sprint were sent from an infected computer (or computers) that had those email addresses in it. Probably from a computer on a competitor's network. You need to look at the received headers to find out where the emails are are *really* coming from.
jc
Current thread:
- Re: Email virus protection, (continued)
- Re: Email virus protection Stephen J. Wilcox (Aug 21)
- Re: Email virus protection Jack Bates (Aug 21)
- Re: Email virus protection Stephen J. Wilcox (Aug 21)
- Re: Email virus protection Jack Bates (Aug 21)
- Re: Email virus protection Crist Clark (Aug 21)
- Re: Email virus protection Dave Howe (Aug 21)
- email virus ==> over the top neal rauhauser (Aug 21)
- Re: email virus ==> over the top Mike Tancsa (Aug 21)
- Re: email virus ==> over the top Joel Jaeggli (Aug 21)
- Re: email virus ==> over the top Steve Carter (Aug 21)
- Re: email virus ==> over the top JC Dill (Aug 21)
- Re: email virus ==> over the top Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 21)
- Re: email virus ==> over the top neal rauhauser (Aug 21)
- Re: Email virus protection Jack Bates (Aug 21)
- Re: email virus ==> over the top Joseph McDonald (Aug 21)
- Re: email virus ==> over the top Susan Zeigler (Aug 21)
- Re: Email virus protection Stephen J. Wilcox (Aug 21)
- Re: Email virus protection Crist Clark (Aug 21)