From: Andre Tomt <andre@tomt.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: joe briggs <jbriggs@briggsmedia.com>,
Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
Subject: Re: Spam/LKML
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:16:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F708DE7.9060100@tomt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200309231437.43542.jbriggs@briggsmedia.com>
joe briggs wrote:
> I am getting hammered with them, though I use a sendmail server. Is this a
> manifestation or exploit of the buffer-overflow security issue out with
> sendmail?
It's just a Microsoft virus names Gibe-F/Swen/Automat.AHB that has
started spreading this past week or so. Same old, stupid users execute
an attachment or whatever that scans for email-addresses and spreads
through them.
The antivirus software on a mailserver I run has picked up 39567 of
Gibe-F the past 24 hours.
Quoting Sophos (.com):
"W32/Gibe-F is a worm which spreads by emailing itself via its own SMTP
engine to addresses extracted from various sources on the victim's
drives (e.g. MBX and DBX files). The worm also spreads using the KaZaA
peer-to-peer shared folders, via IRC channels and will copy itself to
the Startup folder of mapped
network drives. W32/Gibe-F may also attempt to spread via usenet
newsgroups (NNTP)."
--
Mvh,
André Tomt
andre@tomt.net
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-23 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-23 17:21 Spam/LKML Justin Piszcz
2003-09-23 18:24 ` Spam/LKML Markus Hästbacka
2003-09-23 22:17 ` Spam/LKML Robert White
2003-09-26 1:12 ` Spam/LKML Kurt Wall
2003-09-23 18:37 ` Spam/LKML joe briggs
2003-09-23 17:43 ` Spam/LKML Justin Piszcz
2003-09-23 18:08 ` Spam/LKML David S. Miller
2003-09-23 18:20 ` Spam/LKML Andre Tomt
2003-09-23 18:03 ` Spam/LKML David S. Miller
2003-09-23 18:16 ` Andre Tomt [this message]
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