Rebel Prince

Thom and I had planned to see Thoroughly Modern Millie next Saturday, but yesterday afternoon out of curiosity, I decided to check ticket availability for the other performances. (The touring company opens at Wolf Trap on Tuesday, Aug. 26.) To my delight, the ticketing website yielded two front-row seats for opening night (woo hoo!), so of course we couldn’t pass them up. They must’ve been released for sale only recently. (Reminds me of last fall, the day of the Ben Folds concert, I decided that hmm, yes, I actually did want to go, and Ticketmaster rewarded my procrastination with a seat in the second row.)

So yeah, I can’t wait. By the way, you New Yorkers (and vacationers), if you haven’t already, go see Millie on Broadway while Tony Award-winner Sutton Foster is still in the title role. She is awesome.

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Another rant about spam: one of the e-mails I just received has the subject line “You left your umbrella,” from someone named Angel Scott. Yahoo Mail had automatically filtered this into the “Bulk” folder, so I knew it was suspicious to begin with, but I was curious. I had indeed left my umbrella on the Metro a couple of weeks ago. Well, it turns out that despite the innocuous subject line, said e-mail concerns that ever popular spam topic: penis enlargement. What the… ?

In related news, after work that day I bought a new umbrella at Hechts, and have I used it yet? Not once. How ironic (or something like that). Sure, it’s rained since then, but I’ve always managed, mostly unintentionally, to avoid being caught outside in a storm. Go figure.

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Agh. As if I weren’t getting enough unsolicited e-mail as it is, yesterday I started receiving a whole slew of it, and there’s a virus at work here. I’ve also received lots of “undeliverable mail” bounce messages, for e-mails with my address as the sender, even though I never sent them. So if you’ve received strange spam-like e-mail from my address, I didn’t send them, I swear!

Apparently, it’s “WORM_SOBIG.F”:

This worm propagates by mass-mailing copies of itself using its own Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) engine. It collects email addresses from files with the following extensions: DBX, HLP, MHT, WAB, HTML, HTM, TXT, EML. It sends out email messages with the following details:

Subject: <any of the following:>
Re: Thank you! 
Thank you! 
Re: Details 
Re: Re: My details 
Re: Approved 
Re: Your application 
Re: Wicked screensaver 
Re: That movie

Message body: <any of the following:> 
See the attached file for details. 
Please see the attached file for details.

Attachment: <any of the following:> 
your_document.pif 
document_all.pif 
thank_you.pif 
your_details.pif 
details.pif 
document_9446.pif 
application.pif 
wicked_scr.scr 
movie0045.pif

It may spoof the FROM field using e-mail addresses found on the infected machine so that its e-mail messages appear to originate from one source but was actually sent from another. This worm deactivates its propagation routine on September 10, 2003. This worm runs on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, and XP.

More info at Trend Micro and Symantec.

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