Re: [SLUG] sobig question

From: ethan@ethanzimmerman.com
Date: Sat Aug 30 2003 - 02:23:53 EDT


> My question is though, why am I getting many bounce messages from
> various places that MY messages are being blocked to places that I have
> never sent an e-mail to.

short answer: SoBig is using your address in the From: field

SoBig does alot of email address mining and then mass mails itself to all the
address it can find using one of those addresses as the from address (which
makes it a pain to trace)

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