Posted on 08/19/2003 11:16:06 PM PDT by LinuxRocks
Sobig.F email work is causing problems!
Posted by Concerned to RightOnTheLeftCoast
On News/Activism 08/20/2003 11:46 AM CDT #75 of 79
Find the original at: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/967209/posts?page=75#75
RIGHTONTHELEFTCOAST WROTE: "See, I'm getting a flood of outraged email from virus checkers around the world complaining about infected email sent from my account. Trouble is: "
RIGHTONTHELEFTCOAST ADDED: "o The notification emails refer to recipients I've never heard of."
RIGHTONTHELEFTCOAST ADDED: "o The virus-notification emails reference a version of my business account which is three or four years obsolete. I (or a virus) could not send from that specific email address if I wanted to, although emails sent *to* that address are automatically redirected to me by our server."
RIGHTONTHELEFTCOAST ADDED: "Verdict: some poor schmuck is infected, and has my old email address someplace in his system. The worm found it and is merrily sending away using that as an alias. The virus checkers are merely replying back to what they're told is the source."
RIGHTONTHELEFTCOAST ADDED: "I've seen this happen before, but never with such a voluminous avalanche of notification emails. Either this bug is more prolific than others before it, or people are finally getting wise and running antivirus protection."
RIGHTONTHELEFTCOAST ADDED: "Update yours today!"
I RESPONDED: "You MAY have received email that LOOKS like it is a "notification email" when it may REALLY be an ATTACK email DISGUISED as a "notification email." It has happened to me before."
I ADDED: "Once you open it, YOU may be the "poor schmuck" you refer to and MAY actually be unknowingly and unintentionally spreading it yourself. I say that because you mentioned that you didn't even recognize the addresses of the people who supposedly had received email FROM you. It MAY be because those "notification emails" REALLY ARE the FAKES I mentioned and they are REALLY being SENT FROM those unknown email addresses TO you to TRICK YOU into opening them."
I ADDED: "The REAL culprit(s) MAY have your old email address and are using IT to disguise the above mentioned "notification email.""
I ADDED: "As I said above, it has happened to me."
BOTTOM LINE: SPAMMERS MAY BE SENDING OUT SPAM EMAIL TO LOOK LIKE RETURNED MAIL WHEN IT IS REALLY SPAM MAIL DISGUISED AS "NOTIFICATION EMAIL."
It was found by Microsoft. They issued a security patch two weeks before the virus struck. I keep all my MS machines up to date with current patches. Ditto for my Symantec antivirus. Methinks the problem is that you were asleep at the switch. You're paying the price and making MS out to be incompetent. I think the wrong party is being flogged here.
Somebody who is infected sent a virus with your email forged as the "from" address. The receiver bounced it back to you.
Well I don't appreciate your comment about being "asleep" and I can prove that you are the one that is wrong. Go here and you will note THIS comment: Microsoft thanks The Last Stage of Delirium Research Group for reporting this issue to us and working with us to protect customers. It is amazing that you know nothing about me yet you can basically say that its my fault, and that I don't know what I'm talking about, when you don't even have your facts straight.
Yeah, but with friends who send you viruses, who needs enemies? ;-)
Haven't had the BSOD since '98 and have never had a virus, worm or trojan. Wonder what I'm doing so wrong others are doing so right? (/sarcasm)
Not any more than taking a vaccine will clean and disinfect your home. At any rate, my machine is a Sun workstation. There are no critical updates, as it was immune in the first place.
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