Vanity: Is anyone else getting hit with "Netsky"?

4/30/04 | Redcloak

[Redcloak]

Is anyone else getting hit by emails infected with "Netsky"?

Over the past week, I've gotten about a dozen messages with the W32.Netsky.Q@mm worm. (Norton makes quick work of them, however.) A few have had return addresses from some of my customers' domains, but the worm can spoof the return address. Symantec's page on the worm is here.

I've gotten two thus far today and one automated response from a server where my email address had been spoofed. Is anybody else seeing this worm wiggling in their inbox?

[Redcloak]

Some of your ports scans may be websites you've visited. Some servers ping visitors' computers. Why? I dunno. Others are people looking for proxy servers. Still others are infected machines looking for other machines to turn into zombies.

[R. Scott]

Ditto, now if Cox would do something about the spam.

They started very recently - you should get an Email from them to sign up. It’s not perfect, but my spam dropped from over 20 a day to 2 or 3.

[R. Scott]

Today I was notified that I had several "bagel" viruses - thank you Cox for keeping them out of my desktop.

[Bon mots]

I usually get 8-12 per day.
I just recently got a particularly tricky one, it came from somebody named "Ann" at my company and had a real photo in the text of the email of a nice looking young lady.

Of course, I didn't open it, but I can see how others are easily duped by Netsky.

Netsky is by far the most prevalent virus I have ever seen.

[razorback-bert]

20 a day to 2 or 3.

I suffer from hundreds.

[R. Scott]

Ouch!