[NMLUG] Re: "Mail Delivery System"

[havoc at harrisdev.com (Jody Harris)]

Ah, there it is...

A Windows computer, with your address, and the LUG address either in 
their e-mail list, or in their web cache, and viola! your mail server 
rejects the message coming to you, and sends the rejection notice to the 
list server.

now, the only question is, "what are the chances?"

j

Paul Tietjens wrote:
> MyDoom and various Mimail variants forge mail headers - so it can (and 
> does) make it's payload appear to come from anywhere it likes.  Most 
> modern mail/av solutions (such as Amavis+Postfix+Clamav) have 
> configuration paramters telling them which viruses do this - because 
> it's a total waste of time to send warnings to a forged Reply To: or 
> other usually useful header.
> 
> Steve Browne wrote:
> 
>> This message contained an attached "test.zip" which, in turn,
>> contained the MyDoom-A virus. Did this come through swcp? How did it
>> get through?
>>
>> Steve
>> Stephen B. Browne
>> sbrowne@ix.netcom.com
>> "Ubi bene, ibi patria."
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