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    Virus sent last Thursday - Anyone use RoadRunner?


    • To: IPS <ips@ece.cmu.edu>
    • Subject: Virus sent last Thursday - Anyone use RoadRunner?
    • From: Mark Bakke <mbakke@cisco.com>
    • Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:36:43 -0500
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    • Sender: owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu

    
    Sorry this is a bit off-topic, but I want to clear this up.
    
    Last Thursday I had received a lot of email responses from virus
    scanning software from recipients on the ips mailing list mentioning
    a virus that appeared to be sent by me.  Since I don't use Windows
    for email, it seemed odd that I could have sent anything.
    
    It turns out I didn't send it, but I want to figure out where it
    came from.
    
    Here's what happened.  The email to the ips list was sent from
    a machine at austin.rr.com (RoadRunner), with the From: line set
    to my address.  SMTP lets you do this; you can send an email that
    appears to be "From:" anyone you want.  Here are the recieve
    headers from the machines that sent to majordomo:
    
    Received: 
    from sm13.texas.rr.com (sm13.texas.rr.com [24.93.35.40]) by ece.cmu.edu (8.11.0/8.10.2)
    with ESMTP id g7N3Koo15994 for <ips@ece.cmu.edu>; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 23:20:51
    -0400 (EDT)
    
    Received: 
    from Cudhz (cs24243252-119.austin.rr.com [24.243.252.119]) by sm13.texas.rr.com
    (8.12.1/8.12.0.Beta16) with SMTP id g7N3OVDg010776 for <ips@ece.cmu.edu>; Thu, 22
    Aug 2002 22:24:32 -0500
    
    Does anyone recognize the account or host named cs24243252-119?
    
    Thanks,
    
    -- 
    Mark A. Bakke
    Cisco Systems
    mbakke@cisco.com
    763.398.1054
    


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