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> > The only list I am currently active on is this. While hard to |
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> believe |
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> > the most logical conclusion is that some gentoo-dev subscribers has |
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> > been infected. |
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> You neglect the spread mechanism here. Given that the worm forges |
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> it's |
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> source address to a random value, the ONLY requirement to recieve an |
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> infected email from somebody is that they have have at some point |
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> recieved an email from you (either directly or via some mailing list) |
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> in |
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> the past, and they still have your email on their system. |
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Reading the virus description again I see that I missed a critival |
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part. The virus does not use the victims smtp but rather one of 350 |
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diffrent servers around the world, thus this may very well come from |
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the same host. |
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Im sorry about the superflous list traffic. |
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/John |
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