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>Even more disturbing: in the last 48 hours I've rec'd 3 "returned mail" >notices from servers I don't know stating that they've rejected a >message "I sent" because it contained a suspicious .pif attachment. >These are messages to people I don't know, THAT I NEVER SENT, but I'm >listed as the sender. Obviously, someone mined my e-mail address from >somewhere on the internet (maybe off of a previous legitimate message on >somebody else's' box that I really did send?). Jim, This is a version of the Sobig virus. Self propogating, it takes email ad= dresses from the infected computers address book and sends them a copy of= itself. It also takes an email address from that computers address book = and puts it down as the sender. BTW I saw on the news yesterday they caught and arrested the couple (and = their teenage son) that started this virus spreading about 2 weeks ago. Roy ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C372BA.9BAD1140 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><BODY STYLE=3D"font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><DIV><BR>>Even m= ore disturbing: in the last 48 hours I've rec'd 3 "returned mail"<BR>>= notices from servers I don't know stating that they've rejected a<BR>>= message "I sent" because it contained a suspicious .pif attachment.<BR>&g= t;These are messages to people I don't know, THAT I NEVER SENT, but I'm<B= R>>listed as the sender. Obviously, someone mined my e-mail addr= ess from<BR>>somewhere on the internet (maybe off of a previous legiti= mate message on<BR>>somebody else's' box that I really did send?).<BR>= </DIV> <DIV>Jim,</DIV> <DIV>This is a version of the Sobig virus. Self pr= opogating, it takes email addresses from the infected computers address b= ook and sends them a copy of itself. It also takes an email add= ress from that computers address book and puts it down as the sender= </DIV> <DIV>BTW I saw on the news yesterday they caught and arreste= d the couple (and their teenage son) that started this virus spreading ab= out 2 weeks ago.</DIV> <DIV>Roy</DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C372BA.9BAD1140--
