Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Sep 2002 23:31:15 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Spamcop |
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On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 02:13:38PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 05:06:15PM -0400, Gerhard Mack wrote: > > Check your logs .. it looks like maybe somone was sending spoofed > > requests? Either that or somone was a total dumbass. > > > > I wonder how hard it is to generate enough requests to get somone listed. > > In the for what it is worth department, I got mail from "esr@thyrus.org" > with a subject of "cool game" or something like that, and it was obviously > forged. It's interesting that they are getting smart enough to make it look > like it comes from someone that you've communicated with in the past. Sigh.
That's an internet worm, called klez. I'm getting more than 10 of these daily. Each is a meg of data. And I'm also getting responses from various mailservers which received the worm with my From: address. It generates both From: and To: randomly based on the victims Outlook addressbook.
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