Re: Flood of infected emails - w32.sobig.f@mm

2003-08-19 Thread Alisha Stephanie Outridge
It a different worm. Do not open any .Pif files. Yahoo and seemingly mnay other mail servers are invested with them and a new virus was discovered today at 9am US Eastern Standard Time by Symantec. If you downloaded this executable DOS file read the link below to get rid of it. It doesn't infect U

Re: Flood of infected emails

2003-08-19 Thread Marc Ramirez
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Chris wrote: > On Tuesday 19 August 2003 11:43 am, Matt Heath wrote: > > >>Has anyone besides me been receiving a flood of infected emails? > > > > could it be that the blaster patch opens up the sobig vector? > > Wouldn't that just be a kick! It appears different... but who

Re: Flood of infected emails

2003-08-19 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 08/19/03 11:59 AM, Chris sat at the `puter and typed: > On Tuesday 19 August 2003 11:43 am, Matt Heath wrote: > > >>Has anyone besides me been receiving a flood of infected emails? > > > > could it be that the blaster patch opens up the sobig vector? > > Wouldn't that just be a kick! No, it'd

Re: Flood of infected emails

2003-08-19 Thread Chris
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 11:43 am, Matt Heath wrote: > >>Has anyone besides me been receiving a flood of infected emails? > > could it be that the blaster patch opens up the sobig vector? Wouldn't that just be a kick! > >I think my address is being used for parts of a flood of virus or spam > >m

Re: Flood of infected emails

2003-08-19 Thread Matt Heath
Has anyone besides me been receiving a flood of infected emails? could it be that the blaster patch opens up the sobig vector? I think my address is being used for parts of a flood of virus or spam mail. It seems plausible the harvesting was done from 'freebsd-questions'. all mine hav

Re: Flood of infected emails

2003-08-19 Thread Armand Passelac
Here is the virus description from TrendMicro Labs : We decide to declare a YELLOW ALERT on the malware WORM_SOBIG.F, due to several infection over the world. For reminder here is the short Virus Description: This worm propagates by mass-mailing copies of itself using its own Simple Mail Transf

RE: Flood of infected emails

2003-08-19 Thread Vince Hoffman
> > >Has anyone besides me been receiving a flood of infected emails? > > > > > >All the emails have the same subject lines: > > > > > >Thank you! > > >RE: That movie > > >RE: RE: My Details > > >RE: RE: My Details > > >RE: Details > > >RE: Wicked Screensaver > > >RE: Approved > > >RE: Your applic

Re: Flood of infected emails

2003-08-19 Thread Steve Hovey
same here - all from rr.com and all .pif files On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Matt Heath wrote: > Charles Howse wrote: > > >Has anyone besides me been receiving a flood of infected emails? > > > >All the emails have the same subject lines: > > > >Thank you! > >RE: That movie > >RE: RE: My Details > >RE:

Re: Flood of infected emails

2003-08-19 Thread Matt Heath
Charles Howse wrote: Has anyone besides me been receiving a flood of infected emails? All the emails have the same subject lines: Thank you! RE: That movie RE: RE: My Details RE: RE: My Details RE: Details RE: Wicked Screensaver RE: Approved RE: Your application But are from different users.

Re: Flood of infected emails

2003-08-19 Thread John Mills
Charles, all - On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Charles Howse wrote: > Has anyone besides me been receiving a flood of infected emails? > All the emails have the same subject lines: > > Thank you! > RE: That movie > RE: RE: My Details > RE: RE: My Details > RE: Details > RE: Wicked Screensaver > RE: Appro

Re: Flood of infected emails

2003-08-19 Thread Kliment Andreev
>> Has anyone besides me been receiving a flood of infected emails? I am flooded too. From 8:00AM (EST) till now (11:40AM) I received almost 120 of these emails. I am using Norton Antivirus 2003. The attachments were purged automatically. According to http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/