From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@work.bitmover.com>,
Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net>,
Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Spamcop
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 23:31:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020912233115.A24954@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020912141338.B14230@work.bitmover.com>; from lm@bitmover.com on Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 02:13:38PM -0700
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 02:13:38PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 05:06:15PM -0400, Gerhard Mack wrote:
> > Check your logs .. it looks like maybe somone was sending spoofed
> > requests? Either that or somone was a total dumbass.
> >
> > I wonder how hard it is to generate enough requests to get somone listed.
>
> In the for what it is worth department, I got mail from "esr@thyrus.org"
> with a subject of "cool game" or something like that, and it was obviously
> forged. It's interesting that they are getting smart enough to make it look
> like it comes from someone that you've communicated with in the past. Sigh.
That's an internet worm, called klez. I'm getting more than 10 of these daily.
Each is a meg of data. And I'm also getting responses from various
mailservers which received the worm with my From: address. It generates
both From: and To: randomly based on the victims Outlook addressbook.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-12 21:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-12 20:10 [OFFTOPIC] Spamcop Russell King
2002-09-12 20:41 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-12 21:06 ` Gerhard Mack
2002-09-12 21:13 ` Larry McVoy
2002-09-12 21:30 ` Gerhard Mack
2002-09-12 21:31 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2002-09-12 22:09 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2002-09-12 23:47 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-13 0:52 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-09-13 8:18 ` bert hubert
2002-09-13 10:37 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-14 1:18 ` jw schultz
2002-09-13 4:20 ` David Ford
2002-09-13 6:53 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-09-13 14:38 ` Gerhard Mack
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