Until this morning, I've completely ignored all the posts about SoBig. I had
no idea the virus has been such a problem. We use MS Outlook at work (I'm
using it right now) and I haven't receive a single email that I wasn't
suppose to get. I don't know what our network people are doing but it must
Damn right they're doing what's right!
They are obviously protecting you from all this trash as it comes through
their port into the company! (But that after all is what they are paid
their stupendous salaries for!)
Those of us on stand-alones and who are self-employed in our wind-swept
Well, I could filter it out at the level of the Exchange server, provided I
got around to installing Exchange. grin /
Actually rebuilding my developmental server is something I'm in the process
of doing in my spare time. Just over a week ago my server decided to do a
spontaneous reboot twice. On
Hello Peter,
i know that this won't help against SoBig, but since she has problems configuring her
Outlook to sort her mail according to whatever attachements, well there's emailer that
do that :-)
Jürgen
Thursday, August 21, 2003, 4:18:20 PM, you wrote:
Change of email client won't
but I fear you _need_ Outlook specifically, right?
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Regards,
Jurgen
Outlook 2003 is a really great email program
Robert M. Teague
Kaneohe, HI
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On Thursday, August 21, 2003, 7:52:46 AM, Peter MacGregor commented:
PM Those of us on stand-alones and who are self-employed in our wind-swept
PM garrets have to deal with it ourselves and try and meet deadlines for that
PM world-beating project that will make us rich enough to employ an IT
What I can't quite figure out is why the spam filters caught approx. half of
the SoBig emails but left the other half to go into my inbox.
On the whole Outlook 2003 is a much better program than 2002.
Cheryl D. Wise
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but I fear you _need_ Outlook specifically, right?
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Regards,
Jurgen
Outlook 2003 is a really great email program
Robert M. Teague
Kaneohe, HI
On Thursday, August 21, 2003, 12:20:56 PM, Cheryl D. Wise commented:
CDW What I can't quite figure out is why the spam filters
CDW caught approx. half of the SoBig emails but left the
CDW other half to go into my inbox.
Because the exact text of the subject and message varies
somewhat. Whatever
Who names these viruses? Forgive me for saying, but the names sound like
they belong to a porno site much more than a name for viruses!
Wait..come to think of it, I guess it's apropos!
Jan
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Abigail Marshall wrote:
On Thursday, August 21, 2003,
On Thursday, August 21, 2003, 2:30:23 PM, Jan commented:
J Who names these viruses?
The viruses get named by whoever discovers them first. The
first incarnation of Sobig (Sobig.A) always came from the
email address [EMAIL PROTECTED], so that may be the origin of
the word big.
The viruses retain
Abigail
Thanks for the info. You really have a wealth of knowledge. I
admire and respect that in people.
Jan
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Abigail Marshall wrote:
On Thursday, August 21, 2003, 2:30:23 PM, Jan commented:
J Who names these viruses?
The viruses get named by
None of the attachments come through in a form that can be executed. Even if
they weren't being quarantined by Zone Alarm, et. al. Outlook 2002-2003 all
put pif, exe, dll, com, mdb (that one kills me) under security level I
(which means they show up but can't be opened) by default. You have to
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