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Re: [Fwd: Re: sober.z to hit tomorrow]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wil Schultz)
Fri Jan 6 11:03:23 2006

Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 08:02:42 -0800
From: Wil Schultz <wschultz@wilcomm.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200601060806.k0686aRt003188@world.std.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


And here i was expecting .ZIP file from the FBI and CIA telling me that 
I need to full out a "survey" :)

-Wil

Martin Hannigan wrote:

>>Here is some more interesting information. I'm not positive this is 
>>Sober.Z related but it's walking like and talking like a duck.
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>>First I see the below DNS requests, shortly after I see many SMTP 
>>packets hitting Hotmail, AOL, Yahoo.com, Yahoo.co.uk, Progegy, etc.... 
>>Looks like it's... Sending SPAM?!?!
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>No! Not that!
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>>This I didn't expect at all, here is a trace from one of the known 
>>infected users:
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>This is how these folks make money. 
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