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Hijacked email

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack.W.Parks@alltel.com)
Wed Aug 20 08:37:07 2003

Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 07:36:23 -0500
From: <Jack.W.Parks@alltel.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Anyone seeing hijacked email addresses with this Sobig-F worm?  I did
some research and I know I didn't send anything to Investec Bank of
Johannesburg,ZA. On top of that, I definitely did not send a worm.

Thoughts?

Jack

-----Original Message-----
From: jlouw@investec.co.za [mailto:jlouw@investec.co.za]=20
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 4:11 AM
To: Parks, Jack W
Cc: VMeetoo@investec.co.mu
Subject: MailMarshal has detected a Virus in your message


Investec content scanning has stopped the following message:

   Message: BB002e9963.00000001.mml
   From:    Jack.W.Parks@alltel.com
   To:      VMeetoo@investec.co.mu
   Subject: Thank you!

Because it believes the message contains a virus.
The virus scanning software used was: Sophos AntiVirus (SAVI2 Interface)

Virus name: W32/Sobig-F

Please clean the file and resend it.

Rule: Inbound Messages : Block Virus

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