in case nobody else noticed it, there was a mail worm released today

Tue Jan 27 07:08:52 UTC 2004

This lovely little worm will start beating on the door at www.sco.com come 
Feb 1/04. Interesting huh?

At 09:01 PM 26/01/2004 -0500, Wojtek Zlobicki wrote:

>The worm is being talked about on news.com and all the major virus vendors
>already have advisories on their websites. The worm in my case masqueraded
>as a Mailer Daemon bounce.  Source email address appeared to be valid and
>matching a domain of a website I visited recently (but have not for a long
>time).  Anyone know the worm generates the sending domain.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of Paul
>Vixie
>Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 8:52 PM
>To: nanog at merit.edu
>Subject: in case nobody else noticed it, there was a mail worm released
>today
>
>
>my copies (500 or so, before i filtered) are in a ~7MB gzip'd mailbox file
>called http://sa.vix.com/~vixie/mailworm.mbox.gz (plz don't fetch that
>unless you need it for comparison or analysis).  there's a high degree of
>splay in the smtp/tcp peer address, and the sender is prepared to try backup
>MX's if the primary rejects it, though it appears to try the MX's in
>priority order.