On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > That looks like the sobig.f worm. Don't double-click on the attachment, > if you are reading the email on a Windows machine. > > The worm comes in an attached ".pif" or ".scr" or ".exe" file of about 99K > bytes.
Was there really an attachment (I don't have the mail any longer), or had the attachment been stripped before it was sent through the list? I didn't see one, and usually our mail filter replaces sobig.f-attachments with a text message saying that the attachment has been removed). This doesn't really matter of course, except that for people running Windows, it would be good to check that trashy Micro$oft-extensions aren't allowed through the list. /Christian PS. My aversion to MS was recentely amplified by installing W2K - I had to reboot ten+ times while installing service packs and graphics drivers. -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
