On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 10:04, Antony Stone wrote: > On Tuesday 01 July 2003 12:54 am, Russell Coker wrote: > > Guys, what's going on here? > > > > Are these messages really originating with you as they claim or are they > > getting @wirex.com tacked on the end of the address? > > The Sobig virus spoofs the sender address, so what you see is not where it > appears to be from. Yes, we all know that. However those "notifications" about viruses are coming from mail.wirex.com. Either a wirex server is running an anti-virus program and spamming their own list, or their list server is obscuring the real origin of the messages. In either case they have to fix it. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page _______________________________________________ linux-security-module mailing list linux-security-moduleat_private http://mail.wirex.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-security-module
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