SoBig.F virus authors are responsible for the annoying spam, not Sun Micro or Netscape

These e-mails are courtesy of the SoBig.F virus.  This
e-mail worm includes logic that spoofs the sender's
e-mail address from harvested files of infected
machines.  This means that a computer somewhere with
files that contain *@sun.com and *@.netscape.com
e-mail addresses has been infected by the SoBig.F
virus.   

You and W3C should configure your e-mail servers
and/or workstation e-mail applications to block
e-mails with attachments ending with *.src and *.pif. 
Both of these are associated with SoBig.f.
 
Reference:
http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_SOBIG.F

Jeff Smith

--- NIRUPAM TEWARY <ntewary@adobe.com> wrote:
> 
> Kindly also include the following :
> 
> pelegri@eng.sun.com
> tdell@netscape.com
> 
> thanks
> 
> Nirupam Tewary
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-international-request@w3.org
> [mailto:www-international-request@w3.org]On Behalf
> Of David THOMAS
> Sent: Thursday, 28 August, 2003 04:58 PM
> To: www-international@w3.org
> Subject: RE : That movie
> 
> 
> 
> Please could you remove or block br@eng.sun.com from
> the mailing list ?
> Or just black listed the eng.sun.com domain ?
> I'm fed up with these mails.
> 
> Many thanks
> David
> 
> The original message was received at Thu, 28 Aug
> 2003 04:21:51 -0700
> (PDT) from relay21.sun.com [192.12.251.14] (may be
> forged)
> 
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal
> errors -----
> <br@eng.sun.com>
>     (reason: 550 5.1.1 <br@eng.sun.com>... User
> unknown)
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> ... while talking to engmail2sun.eng.sun.com.:
> >>> DATA
> <<< 550 5.1.1 <br@eng.sun.com>... User unknown
> 550 5.1.1 <br@eng.sun.com>... User unknown
> <<< 503 5.0.0 Need RCPT (recipient)
> 
> 
> 
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : www-international-request@w3.org
> [mailto:www-international-request@w3.org] De la part
> de br@eng.sun.com
> Envoyé : 27 August 2003 23:14
> À : www-international@w3.org
> Objet : Re: That movie
> 
> See the attached file for details
> 
>

Received on Thursday, 28 August 2003 18:59:49 UTC