quoted 11 lines SoBig.F Worm aftershocks. I've received a few of> SoBig.F Worm aftershocks. I've received a few of
> those emails, both bounced and
> directed, with worm attachments, addressed *from*
> [idm] list members. The members
> are not sending the worm. The worm has infected a
> computer, maybe theirs and maybe
> someone else's who got them in their address book,
> and the worm is propagating the
> emails under that addy...and many, many others. I'm
> getting a dozen or more a day:
> 101 in the past 7 days.
Another reason that the sobig virus seems to be
finding _so many_ emails to forge is that it also
harvests email addressses from cached pages on the
infected pc. Combine that with the fact that half of
the stupid mail servers around the world will send
messages back to forged senders stating that their
email was not delivered because it had a virus, and
the legions of people emailing telling us to stop
using outlook/outlook express, you have quite a flow
of unwanted crap coming into your inbox.
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