Re: [SLUG] sobig question

From: Bob Stia (rnr@sanctum.com)
Date: Sat Aug 30 2003 - 23:15:42 EDT


On Saturday 30 August 2003 12:23, Steven Buehler wrote:

>
> 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
Thanks for the explanation guys.

Bob S.

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