Re: How to figure out who sent the netsky virus?
From: Veronica Loell (lista_at_nakawe.se)
Date: 03/06/04
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Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 17:10:05 +0100
peter wrote / skrev:
> I received more than a hundred emails with the netsky virus in the past two
> days. It is starting to annoy me.
>
> Out of the 150 or so email, I recognize about 3 of the names in the From
> field as people I know. It seems that the virus does not spoof the from
> field at random, but takes the info from somewhere. I'm guessing the it
> harvests the email addresses from the address book and randomly pick one as
> the from field, one as the To field. Could anyone confirm this hypothesis?
>
>
Here is how to track down the origin of the email (you won't get farther
than the ISP responsible for the IP-address)
How to report Virus-SPAM
1. Go to
http://spam.abuse.net/userhelp/howtocomplain.shtml
for help on locating the originating IP-adress
2a. Go to
http://www.abuse.net/lookup.phtml
for looking up the abuse-adress.
2b. An alternative to 2a. is to get the tool SamSpade
(http://www.samspade.org) and use it to do abuse.net lookups and
whois-lookups if there is no abuse.net-adress. There are of course many
such tools,
SamSpade is just one free tool that I happen to use.
Remember to
- 1. always include full headers (like you normally
would with spam-report)
- 2. always include a link to information about
the virus in question with your complaint/information-letter
- 3. never include the virus itself
Not every ISP or company will take it seriously, but some actually do.
If you spend a little time reporting just a couple you will probably
help cure at least one computer somewhere.
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