At 12:13 PM -0400 06/29/2002, Bill Cole wrote:
>At 8:34 AM -0700 6/28/02, Warren Michelsen  imposed structure on a stream of 
>electrons, yielding:
>>Is this email just a virus at work?
>
>Yes, I think. There is weirdness here.

No kidding.

>>
>>
>>
>>Is the Return-path the likely infected source?
>
>Not likely. At first glance it looked like something out there is sending a virus 
>(probably Klez) from some infected machine where the owner has 
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in a local address book. Klez uses random address book 
>entries as the Return-path on its mail, so when mail appearing to be from you hit the 
>MTA with this filter on it, it sent the bounce back to you.
>
>Then I looked again. This bounce just isn't right. It isn't coming from <> and it 
>isn't coming from anywhere near mossmotorsdodge.com. The immediate source is a 
>stupidly misconfigured Solaris machine running sendmail which seems to have no 
>connection to you, but seems like a possible nearest relay for what appears to be the 
>true origin, which is trying to claim to be "Lwkuuiokj"
>
>I think "Lwkuuiokj" is infected, and the bounce message itself is the viral vector, 
>made to look like a bounce of a viral vector.

Thanks for your take on this. Normally I'd trash and ignore it but I've been getting a 
whole lot of klez-looking stuff and it all references mossmotorsdodge. Just wondering 
if there was someone I could notify, just in case there is someone there (wherever 
that is) that cares.

-- 
"Your new computer's not gonna be a Mac? Dude, you're getting a Dull!"

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