sobig virus

Joe Stuart jstuart at EDENPR.K12.MN.US
Wed Aug 20 16:26:39 IST 2003


Ok so it's the netbios name of the remote computer sending the virus. Or
is PC2860 one of my machines? And if it's a remote computer how come all
the rest of the email coming in has Recieved: from scrubber.edenpr.org
which is our server.

Thanks again

>>> mike at CAMAROSS.NET 08/20/03 10:24AM >>>
Correct...it is the NETBIOS name.

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
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Of Anders Andersson, IT
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 10:06 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK 
Subject: SV: sobig virus


> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: Joe Stuart [mailto:jstuart at EDENPR.K12.MN.US] 
> Skickat: den 20 augusti 2003 16:50
> Till: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK 
> Ämne: sobig virus
> 
> 
> I have Mailscanner running with f-prot and it seems to be
> stopping about 10-15 viruses a minute which is extremely high 
> vloume. It also seems that a lot of them are getting through. 
> A usual header of an email that comes from the outside starts with
> 
> Received: from scrubber.edenpr.org
>         by edenpr.k12.mn.us; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:34:42 -0500
> 
> the ones getting through seem to be starting with
> 
> Recieved from PC2860
>        (splkpark.k12.mn.us[204.169.235.111])
>         by edenpr.k12.mn.us; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:32:28 -0500
> 
> And they are all .pif's. Scrubber is the server with
> mailscanner on it. I'm coinfused about the PC2860

Sound like the windows name for a computer.... 

> 
> Thanks
> Joe
> 




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