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Re: email virus ==> over the top
- From: Valdis.Kletnieks
- Date: Thu Aug 21 15:12:54 2003
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:10:12 CDT, neal rauhauser <neal@lists.rauhauser.net> said:
> No one loves me and I don't get much email from the folks who tolerate
> me. I just got back from having lunch with some guys who tolerate me and
> I found scads of messages from all over -the funniest among the bunch
> for our Nanog readers:
>
> <user>@cisco.com
> <user>@tacnet.com
> <user>@wcom.com
> <user>@sprint.com
> Looks like my internetwork equipment vendor and my two favorite peers
> have their Windoze stuff in a complete state of 'higgledy piggledy' - a
No, it looks like some poor schmuck who happened to have those e-mail
addresses somewhere on the disk has their windows system in trouble.
W32/SoBig-F is known to forge the From: field. Which explains why I've gotten
at least 103 "you sent us a virus" postings regarding my Linux laptop.. ;)
Which of course just goes to show that people can be "behind the knowledge curve"
no matter *what* operating system they happen to be using.
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