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Vanity: Is anyone else getting hit with "Netsky"?
4/30/04 | Redcloak

Posted on 04/30/2004 4:34:50 PM PDT by 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?


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Technical
KEYWORDS: netsky; virus; worm
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To: devane617
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.
41 posted on 05/01/2004 12:06:29 AM PDT by Redcloak (Have you hugged your tagline today?)
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To: razorback-bert
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.

42 posted on 05/01/2004 2:50:25 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: Redcloak
Today I was notified that I had several "bagel" viruses - thank you Cox for keeping them out of my desktop.
43 posted on 05/01/2004 2:52:24 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: mlbford2; Redcloak
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.
44 posted on 05/01/2004 3:11:05 AM PDT by Bon mots
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To: R. Scott
20 a day to 2 or 3.

I suffer from hundreds.

45 posted on 05/01/2004 6:44:00 AM PDT by razorback-bert
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To: razorback-bert
Ouch!
46 posted on 05/01/2004 9:32:57 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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