[61046] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: email virus ==> over the top
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Aug 21 15:10:47 2003
To: neal rauhauser <neal@lists.rauhauser.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:10:12 CDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 14:53:23 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:10:12 CDT, neal rauhauser <neal@lists.rauhauser.net> said:
> No one loves me and I don't get much email from the folks who tolerate
> me. I just got back from having lunch with some guys who tolerate me and
> I found scads of messages from all over -the funniest among the bunch
> for our Nanog readers:
>
> <user>@cisco.com
> <user>@tacnet.com
> <user>@wcom.com
> <user>@sprint.com
> Looks like my internetwork equipment vendor and my two favorite peers
> have their Windoze stuff in a complete state of 'higgledy piggledy' - a
No, it looks like some poor schmuck who happened to have those e-mail
addresses somewhere on the disk has their windows system in trouble.
W32/SoBig-F is known to forge the From: field. Which explains why I've gotten
at least 103 "you sent us a virus" postings regarding my Linux laptop.. ;)
Which of course just goes to show that people can be "behind the knowledge curve"
no matter *what* operating system they happen to be using.
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