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

Thu Jun 26 03:37:56 UTC 2003

In message <200306260325.h5Q3PP5U025759 at nic-naa.net>, Eric Brunner-Williams in 
Portland Maine writes:
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>
>> W32/sobig.e at MM per McAffee.....
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>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...
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>Jun 25 18:21:11 nic-naa sm-mta[24589]: h5PMLB5U024589: from=<administrator at 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)