At 08:10 AM 8/21/2003, neal rauhauser wrote:
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 technical term from Bloom County cartoons, for those not old enough to remember.
Today's problem virus forges the "from" field. So all those emails "from" <user>@cisco/tacnet/wcom/sprint were sent from an infected computer (or computers) that had those email addresses in it. Probably from a computer on a competitor's network. You need to look at the received headers to find out where the emails are are *really* coming from. jc