VIRUS (Worm.SCO.A) IN YOUR MAIL (fwd)

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Johannes B. Ullrich wrote:

> 
> No. its not spam. MyDoom, like most recent viruses, fakes the 'From:'
> address. I guess you got lucky and it picked yours (do you have this
> address posted on a web site?)

My address is all over the place.  I'm a very popular guy ;)

I should have also mentioned that the mail server and the mail client are 
a Linux box, so this is Redmond-free end to end.

> I guess its more a case of clue-less AV admins. These notifications are 
> essentially pointless, and in some cases worse then then virus
> (I got flooded with them back when Sobig-f came out)

Yup, I usually procmail them out, but I didn't recongnize this one, and 
thought a double-check from someone outside my network would be a good 
idea.

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