Virus emails from nanog mail list

Tue Aug 19 17:00:49 UTC 2003

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:42:49 EDT, David Diaz <techlist at smoton.net>  said:

> Obviously some bot has gone threw the nanog list and is now forging 
> headers such that they appear to come from those addresses, and they 
> are attaching viruses.

More likely, some poor lurker at the IP address listed has gotten hit with
one of the *MANY* worms that forge the From: field, and it's happily
forging in the name of all the most common NANOG posters.

My guess is it's w32-SoBig.F.  But only because it's today, and that one
seems to be busy today.  Ask me next week, it'll be another one. ;)
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