[Mailman-Developers] New emerging virus/worm. Grr.

[Terri Oda]

At 10:07 AM 23/04/02 -0700, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
>This is an emerging worm, and it looks pretty ugly. It has hit Hong Kong and
>Great Britain worst so far, but it's spreading rapidly accordind to people
>I've talked to.

I have to say, I've seen it already quite a bit on some of the linuxchix 
mailing lists.  Mostly it's getting caught by our "posters-only" rules, but 
we're also getting sent "You have a virus" auto-messages to the lists, the 
admins, and probably random posters as well.  I haven't seen any make it 
through to the lists I'm on yet, but it's probably only a matter of time 
before someone's copy chooses a valid From: address.

I hadn't gone to look up the details on it yet, but I figured it was 
forging From:'s when I saw a mail purportedly from an older address 
belonging to our coordinator, who lives in Australia, coming from an ISP 
which is local to me, halfway around the world in Canada.   I haven't been 
tracing ISPs, but I'm guessing it's spread over the US by now.

Thanks for the extra info, Chuq.  I should probably make a similar notice 
available before I start getting complaints.

  Terri