full-disclosure - SoBig.F strange problem

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From: nathan.risser at express-scripts.com (Risser, Nathan (BLM))
Subject: SoBig.F strange problem

It would seem to me that someone who has your email address is infected
with the worm.

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>From Symantec's W32.Sobig.F page:
W32.Sobig.F@mm is a mass-mailing, network-aware worm that sends itself
to all the email addresses that it finds in the files with the following
extensions:

.dbx 
.eml 
.hlp 
.htm 
.html 
.mht 
.wab 
.txt

The worm utilizes it's own SMTP engine to propagate and will attempt to
create a copy of itself on accessible network shares.

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Nate

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Phelps / Dreamwright Studios [mailto:scottp@...amwright.com]

Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 2:01 PM
To: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
Subject: [Full-Disclosure] SoBig.F strange problem

All day today I've been getting copies of SoBig.F. I've gotten around
150 copies so far, and a large number of postmaster bounces saying that
a copy sent from my address was undeliverable.

I know that SoBig forges the from address from files it finds on the
victims machine, but I can't for the life of me figure out why I'm the
attempted victim for so many other copies. I'm not infected with the
virus, I'm running antivirus that strips the attachment before it lands
in my inbox, and I'm running a version of outlook that disallows the
attachment extensions that SoBig uses. I've run manual scans on all of
my machines, in case of infection through a network share, but I don't
have any of those from outside either. All the emails seem to be coming
from different places, but around 90% are using a from address of
@msu.edu.

Is there some logical explanation why I'm being singled out here? My
antivirus is driving me insane with popups, so I've had to shut down my
mail program to get some work done.

I'm sorry for the off topic nature of this question, but this makes no
sense to me!

Scott

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