November 24th, 2005, 10:41 AM
Well, a typically mass-mailer worm selects a random address on the infected PC to send "from:" and another random one to send "to:". That's absolutely normal and to be expected.
Backscatter...
November 24th, 2005, 10:34 AM
That's just a bounce message. The From: address is spoofed but it's quite likely the email is being sent in YOUR name. These messages are sometimes called "backscatter" and frankly they're not...
November 23rd, 2005, 02:20 PM
Zip files are the killer, because we *do* use those, every other type of executable is blocked, although for 1000 users we only receive about 20 zip files a day, almost all of which are sent...
November 23rd, 2005, 01:06 PM
I'm seeing a truly massive amount of activity on a new Sober variant claiming to be from the FBI, CIA or various other agencies.
It's been tagged as CME-681, see...