[Full-Disclosure] Sobig has a surprise...

[Steve Postma]

Taken from f-secure web site     "A potentially massive Internet attack starts today   F-Secure Corporation is warning about a new level of attack to be unleashed by the Sobig.F worm today. Helsinki, Finland - August 22, 2003 Windows e-mail worm Sobig.F, which is currently the most widespread worm in the world, has created massive e-mail outages globally since it was found on Tuesday the 18th of August - four days ago. The worm spreads itself via infected e-mail attachments in e-mails with a spoofed sender address. Total amount of infected e-mails seen in the Internet since this attack started is close to 100 million. However, the Sobig.F worm has a surprise attack in its sleeve."     http://www.f-secure.com/news/items/news_2003082200.shtml