Re: OT: Re: Virus found in the message
On Thursday 21 August 2003 06:31, Pigeon wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 06:57:22PM +1200, cr wrote:
> > Is there a rash of viruses with spoofed origin lines all of a sudden?
> > I had *120* emails in my other email account today (not the one I use on
> > Debian), many of them were Re: Wicked Screensaver. I thought they were
> > all spam but I guess they were mostly bounce messages - something's been
> > spoofing my (other) email addy.
>
> I think they're connected with that worm that's been giving me lots of
> excuses to tell people that Linux is cool :-) I had 15 of them today;
> common characteristics being:
>
(details snipped for bandwidth)
>
> I suspect that it may not be unconnected with this explosion of large
> emails that my dialup has been giving me grief (timeouts attempting to
> connect, line dropped for no apparent reason, random extreme slowness)
> - guess the ISP is having problems with the traffic?
I've been seeing the same symptoms with mine, too. At least today all the
bounces had gone, so the virus may have died down a bit (or maybe it's just
spoofing someone else's addy, not mine)
cr
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