Re: [SLUG] sobig question

From: Steven Buehler (swbuehler@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Aug 30 2003 - 12:23:45 EDT


--- Bob Stia <rnr@sanctum.com> wrote:
> 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.

Someone else, who has your email address in their Windows address book, got
hit with the virus. SoBig pulls a random name out of the addresses it
collects on the infected computer and makes it the "from" address for its
mass spam using its own internal SMTP engine.

SWB

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