Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20021013163732.01fd7c40@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz AT pop3 DOT cris DOT com Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 16:50:54 -0700 To: "Elfyn McBratney" From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: Viruses being transported with Cygwin messages Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com In-Reply-To: References: <1034541363 DOT 5133 DOT 13 DOT camel AT lifelesswks> <006601c272eb$5750f680$855a580c AT who> <1034541363 DOT 5133 DOT 13 DOT camel AT lifelesswks> <5 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 2 DOT 20021013145544 DOT 02c86668 AT pop3 DOT cris DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Elfyn, Let me be clear that I'm not accusing you (or Gareth or Chris F.) of anything here. As others have pointed out, these worms are clever about coming up with addresses both for the apparent "From:" address and the next ply of intended victim recipients. Here are the routing headers from the message _ostensibly_ from you: Return-Path: Received: from mail18.svr.pol.co.uk (mail18.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.67.23]) by morse.concentric.net [Concentric SMTP MX 1.0] id g9DJ7ih10880; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 15:07:44 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Errors-To: Received: from modem-2289.chimpanzee.dialup.pol.co.uk ([217.134.120.241] helo=mcb-home) by mail18.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 180nmm-0007hQ-00; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 19:48:20 +0100 From: "Elfyn McBratney" As you can see, although it claims (suggests? "From:" headers are distinctly non-authoritative) you're at UT Austin, the message itself did not originate or traverse any servers there. Nor does Hotmail appear in the SMTP server-supplied forwarding header. (Concentric is my ISP.) As I understand these worms, they use other user's address books (are they called "Contact Lists" in Outlook and Outlook Express?) to come up with both fraudulent "From:" addresses and recipients. Win32 DOT Bugbear AT mm uses registry data to propagate, too. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA Here's the full text of the message I receive (attachment graciously elided--in fact, I delete them as soon as I confirm my hunch that they're worms): -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- Return-Path: Received: from mail18.svr.pol.co.uk (mail18.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.67.23]) by morse.concentric.net [Concentric SMTP MX 1.0] id g9DJ7ih10880; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 15:07:44 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Errors-To: Received: from modem-2289.chimpanzee.dialup.pol.co.uk ([217.134.120.241] helo=mcb-home) by mail18.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 180nmm-0007hQ-00; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 19:48:20 +0100 From: "Elfyn McBratney" Subject: Re: Need your Mac OS 8 support plan... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----------ISQROT15KBZQSTO" Message-Id: Bcc: Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 19:48:20 +0100 Content-Type: text/html; That is really not fare :( Do you know when we'll get a time-indexed beta-sp ??? ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Aumeerally To: Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 9:52 PM Subject: Re: Need your Mac OS 8 support plan... > > Just wanted to beg you to bring in Mac OS 8 if your on your travels > towards the office :)... > > I may come in Wednesday evening, depending on how the week unfolds... > [] connexionscard-pass.txt.scr -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- At 16:33 2002-10-13, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >I for one would like to know how that happend. If its from hotmail then fare >do's, sorry. If it was from elfyn AT exposure DOT org DOT uk thats impossible because >all I can send through my mailgate is .txt or tars/gz's files...even then >all archives are extracted/scanned. > >What month??? > >Elfyn > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Randall R Schulz >To: >Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 11:03 PM >Subject: Re: Viruses being transported with Cygwin messages > > > > Hi, > > > > I might help to know this is the "W32 DOT Bugbear AT mm" worm. It has been > > spreading a lot lately. In today's batch I received 3 copies under > > different names (supposedly from Christopher Faylor, Gareth Pearce and > > Elfyn McBratney), each with different contents and different attachment >names. > > > > Here's what Symantec has to say about this worm: > > > > > > Randall Schulz > > Mountain View, CA USA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/