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Does anyone know what this is?

What's this?

Dear user nigel.marchant@ntlworld.com,

We have found that your account was used to send a large amount of junk email messages during the recent week. We suspect that your computer had been infected and now contains a hidden proxy server.

We recommend that you follow instructions in the attached file in order to keep your computer safe.

Have a nice day,
ntlworld.com user support team.

Return-Path: <postmaster@ntlworld.com>
Received: from smtp.spamjab.com (core-01.servers.spamjab.com [172.16.0.2])
by storage-01.servers.spamjab.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i72DJ2Mu016105
for <sjp3396@storage-01.servers.spamjab.com>; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 14:19:12 +0100
Received: from localhost (fetch-01.servers.spamjab.com [172.16.0.5])
by smtp.spamjab.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i72DHQTM029973
for <nigel.marchant@ntlworld.com>; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 14:17:48 +0100
Received: from pop.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.50]
by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-6.2.0)
for nigel.marchant@ntlworld.com (single-drop); Mon, 02 Aug 2004 14:17:48 +0100 (BST)
Received: from ntlworld.com ([212.23.24.89]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com
(InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with ESMTP
id <20040802112016.VDWG291.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@ntlworld.com>
for <nigel.marchant@ntlworld.com>; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 12:20:16 +0100
From: "Bounced mail" <postmaster@ntlworld.com>
To: nigel.marchant@ntlworld.com
Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 12:21:38 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0011_C0AC5756.54ED1D2F"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
Message-Id: <20040802112016.VDWG291.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@ntlworld.com>
X-SJ-ID: i72DHQTM029973
Status:

Re: Does anyone know what this is?

It's a virus, most likely MyDoom-o
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/anal...32mydoomo.html#

Quote:

The email sent by the worm has a spoofed sender.

The subject line may be blank or one of the following:

hello
hi
error
status
test
report
delivery failed
Message could not be delivered
Mail System Error - Returned Mail
Delivery reports about your e-mail
Returned mail: see transcript for details
Returned mail: Data format error

Quote:

The message text of the email is constructed from a set of optional strings within the worm. The message sent is blank or similar to one of the following messages:

Dear user of <domain>
Mail server administrator of <domain> would like to inform you that
We have detected that your e-mail account has been used to send a large
amount of unsolicited e-mail messages during this recent week.
We suspect that your computer had been compromised by a recent virus and now
runs a trojan proxy server.
Please follow our instructions in the attachment file
in order to keep your computer safe.
Virtually yours
<domain> user support team.

The message could not be delivered

Re: Does anyone know what this is?

Whatever it is, with those headers, it hasn't come from within the walls of an NTL office.

Re: Does anyone know what this is?

Thread closed due to duplication-link to original provided (Thanks iadom :tu: )