Sobig

Sisyphus kalinabears@iinet.net.au
Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:06:21 +1000


delta trinity wrote:
> I keep getting those too.  It's not necessarely *your* fault.  I think 
> that anyone who have the virus and that for them, it happen that they 
> send it somewhere (the worm actually send itself), sometime, the reply 
> address that the virus put in the mail header is the one of the GMP 
> mailing list.  Then, some ISP or MSP detect the virus and send it back 
> to the mail 'sender' field (in that specific case, gmp-discuss).
> 

Which is about as intelligent and considerate as allowing autoresponders 
to send 'out-of-office' replies to mailing lists.

Cheers,
Rob