RE: Win32.Sircam.Worm Alert.....

From: Tom Geldner (tomat_private)
Date: Tue Jul 24 2001 - 09:34:35 PDT

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    >-----Original Message-----
>From: Johnson, Greg [mailto:JohnsonGat_private] 

>Don't let the e-mail tip-off fool you.
>
>In our University environment we find this and related worms 
>spread primarily via unprotected writeable Windows shares.  It 
>also gets in when a user without up-to-date anti-virus 
>software accesses an e-mail server other than our own which 
>has an anti-virus filter. Bim-ba-boom!

Some of our corporate accounts have been pounded on by a particular user
on verizon.net. None of those e-mail addresses are from someone's
address book. They are all things like info@, webmaster@, postmaster@
etc. so in our case, someone seems to be trying to propogate it
deliberately.

Tom

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