Re:Sircam

From: Kimberly Anne McKinnis (elfat_private)
Date: Wed Jul 25 2001 - 13:14:40 PDT

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    From what I've read, it looks for any email addresses on the system, not
    just in address books. So if webmaster@ was posted on a webpage somewhere,
    that may be the cause.
    
    This subject line is causing some peoples mail servers to reject the mail.
    Somehow I doubt the real virus is actually going to send with that subject.
    
    Tom Geldner wrote:
    
    > >-----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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    kimmie mckinnis
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