Been classified as High Risk and has been hitting big time here at work (making my life hell in the process), so I thought I would post it on here. I should hope most people on here would notice this and not open it, but worth a mention incase you know people who might. FULL INFO: http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100983.htm
seen this alart a few times now too. email's been hit quite hard already now, what with the extra scanning and mail generated from the virus. Looking at about 30 mins to an hour lag currently (6:30 PM GMT)
Now someone (probably the same author) has made a variant that attacks Microsoft as well! SCO aren't taking this lightly: SCO posts $250,000 worm bounty Of course The Register (where this information is coming from) had to go one step further... El Reg
Yet another virus that thinks me so pathetic it doesn't even bother to send itself to me What do I have to do to get a virus now a days? Stupid thing Anyway, I find it rather funny actualy that they made it target the SCO and Microsoft. Personaly, I would do something like this, wait for the reward to come out, then get a friend to "turn me in", split the cash half way, and get my slap on the wrist. A cool $75,000 in the bank and a vacation away from reality for a few months.
I've had al least 100 emails in the past few days - luckily, my server has virus protection so I'm ok. The funny thing is, I only have 1 email address on my server (radiator(at)verticalcircle.co.uk), yet ALL of the virus emails have been sent to something@verticalcircle.co.uk - everything from 'bob' to 'john' to 'adam', never 'radiator' though - thing is, all my unrouted mail gets sent to my main address anyway... Never thought of this before, but is this how one form of spamming works (the spammer doesn't need to know your exact email address, just the domain, and all unrouted mail will get sent to what ever address you've set up (obviously, won't work with free email, only mail that comes with a webspace + domain))? That would make sense, and I bet an endlist list of domains can be found quite easily...
You've hit the nail right on the head, well allmost. As I understand it, the reasioning behind getting all the different whatever@domain.net is because some e-mail servers will actualy route mail sent to an address to it's closest match, if it does not have an exact match. So basicly, if they have a domain, they'll try just sending them out with different address, but same domain name. It's a very smart system, but annoying as hell.