email virus ==> over the top

Thu Aug 21 19:00:09 UTC 2003

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