Worm problem

[Per Steinar Iversen]

On Mon, 9 May 2005, Robin Laing wrote:

> Michael A. Peters wrote:
>> On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 14:13 -0600, Travis Rousseau wrote:
>> 
>>>> Any ideas here?
>>> 
>>> It could have been a program on another computer just using your email 
>>> address.
>> 
>> 
>> Happens to me from time to time.
>> A lot of worms do that to try to hide where they are coming from.
>> It's really annoying - especially when remote servers are configured to
>> return messages that they found to contain a virus/worm.
>> 
>
> Ditto,
>
> It is a major headache here at work.  It seems that allot of outlook users 
> have been hit.  I get 10 to 12 a day via work related email addresses.  Thank 
> you junk filters.
>
> Move them to a junk folder and then delete the "bad" ones.
>
> Our IS department is not getting much success in getting rid of the problem.

Spamassassin and the virus bogus virus-warning ruleset found here will 
catch most of these bounce messages:

http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/sa.php

-psi