full-disclosure - Infections

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From: Jos at meltemi.co.uk (Jos Osborne)
Subject: Infections

Okay - I think someone on here's infected. Within a couple of hours of my address first appearing on this list, I got the following:


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Undeliverable: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

      Subject:	Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
      Sent:	27/01/04 14:17

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

      leo@...empton.co.uk on 27/01/04 14:30
            The e-mail account does not exist at the organization this message was sent to.  Check the e-mail address, or contact the recipient directly to find out the correct address.
            <kempton.twkempton.co.uk #5.1.1>

      mailbox@...empton.co.uk on 27/01/04 14:30
            The e-mail account does not exist at the organization this message was sent to.  Check the e-mail address, or contact the recipient directly to find out the correct address.
            <kempton.twkempton.co.uk #5.1.1>

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My system clock was reading 14:27 at the time I recieved this - an ever so slight discrepancy...
>From the reports I've been getting from users it looks like the virus is spoofing the sent address with a randomly chosen address from the host's address list.

Jos