[GLLUG] SoBig.F Spam

[Chick Tower]

I started getting SoBig spam messages on Sunday at this e-mail 
address, which I hardly ever use, and I wondered how that could be.  
It not only spams addresses in the address lists of infected PCs, it 
spoofs at least some of those addresses in messages sent to other 
people, so I've been getting automated messages from mail systems 
saying my messages couldn't or wouldn't be delivered.  Today I 
received some SoBig-generated messages purportedly from two posters 
on this mailing list.  I suspect that this mailing list has somehow 
been compromised, obviously by a computer running Windows.  Could 
that be the mail server for this mailing list?  It might be that 
someone receives this mailing list on a Windows PC and, when they 
reply to someone who posted a message, the address is automatically 
saved in their address book.  That sounds like something Outlook 
would volunteer to do for users.

I'm not trying to determine or assign blame, and it's too late to do 
anything about it for this version of the worm, but it would be nice 
if it doesn't happen when SoBig.G comes out.  That's especially true 
for those of us using dial-up access, because each SoBig message has 
an attachment that's about 75KB in size.  What really annoys me is 
that I had been using a Linux-only PC for about the previous three 
weeks, but a Windows worm can still screw with me.

                    Chick