[SpamCop-List] Re: [OT] dealing with dictionary and other repeated relay attempts

[Marjolein Katsma]

SikaSpam (SikaM-newminuitLoseThis at sneakemail.com) wrote in 
news:1argvq0116y3c$.1okq0n6oaxvfa$.dlg at 40tude.net:

>> That's probably from the MyDoom worm.
> 
> Did someone say somewhere that that worm does dictionary attacks? I was
> under the impression that it compiled the lists of addresses from all
> documents on a PC and then used these for both To and From.

It also prepends common names from a list to domains it finds; this page 
has a long list (but I don't know whether it's complete):
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=100983
&cid=9539
(sorry for the wrap)


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