[lug] N00b: Security Warning Fun

[Kenneth D. Weinert]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 01:20:12PM -0600, The Matt wrote:
> It goes on to say that I sent "wicked_scr.scr", which is one of the
> Sobig.F files.  Now am I right in assuming the worm spoofed my address
> and sent this out?  I never use mail on Windows, so I'm pretty sure *I*
> didn't send it, but I've never gotten one of these warnings before.

	This is your first one?  I've been getting 20-30 per day now -
I seem to be the virus magnet at our company, getting 25-30% of the
total emails like this of all that come in.

	Yeah, there are several worms/virii that spoof emails when
they send out their vile packages. Too bad more mail admins aren't
either a) smart enough to configure their scanners to not reply to
these, or b) aren't using a smart enough scanner to be able to be
configured that way.

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