Klarinet Archive - Posting 000010.txt from 2001/08

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sircam worm
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 17:18:29 -0400

Yes, it's from me. If you want you can send me a private email at
charette@-----.

Someone sending an email with a Bcc: (blank CC) can send you email without
your address being seen. It's very easy to do.

"Do you really need a chainsaw to cut a piece of cake? ;)"
--zak greant

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Truesdail" <gir@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Sircam worm

> Mark: Did you in fact send out this message. I do not want to click on
> the link unless this is a bonafide message from you. I have been
> getting several emails from strange places, some of them do not even
> have my address on them - can't figure out how they get to me without my
> address.
>
> Gary Truesdail
>
> charette@-----.org wrote:
> >
> > Dear listers with PCs,
> > Please check your systems the Sircam worm. Over the last few days the
number of infected emails being sent to me and email rejected by the mailing
list have reached all-time highs. Yesterday Sneezy received in excess of
500Mb of infected files. It's starting to affect the bandwidth of the
server.There is a free removal tool at
http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.worm@-----.

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