-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Joseph,
On Monday, September 1, 2003 at 19:42 GMT -0500, Joseph N. [JN] wrote in <mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: JN> ... It looks as though someone who had my e-mail address in their JN> WAB (or wherever Sobig looks for addresses) was infected with the JN> worm. If its any consolation, I don't think you're alone. JN> I thought the flurry would die down ... It has a little and probably will taper once those infected realize it and do something about it. Unfortunately, that could take weeks and by then Sobig.g or something similar will be unleashed. JN> My main concerns are (1) minimizing the risk that someone will JN> blacklist my address, and (2) minimizing the risk that this could JN> happen again. I think that there is nothing I can do to achieve JN> either objective; is that correct? I've had the same concerns but I think because so many people were affected, blacklisting seems unlikely. I think most isp people understand that the mails are probably not from the source they appear to be. Had it been a smaller outbreak, the blacklisting threat would probably be possible. JN> I assume this must be a fairly common problem, but there just JN> doesn't seem to be anything I can do while my address is attached JN> to all these infected e-mails.... I don't think there is much anyone can do. I suppose one could change their email address, but that would only be temporary until the next version comes out. I don't know what else can be done other than trying to educate those who are oblivious to security. People like to blame MSoft, but many of those I talk to who are infected are the same people I talked to who were infected by something else in the past. They haven't changed their clicking habits, virus signature update frequency, or system security. The unfortunate part is that we all suffer. My oldest mail account with bigfoot.com has been rendered useless. It has a forwarding quota which has been exceeded daily for a couple of weeks with all the sobig related mails. Fortunately I migrated everything to a new address several months ago. I feel sorry for those on a dialup connection as downloading the garbage mail must be really annoying, time consuming and costly. Who knows where all of this will lead. I'm not encouraged. :( Perhaps this would be a good topic for the TBOT list. I'd be interested to hear any suggestions. - -- Kevin Coates Dewitt, NY USA X-Request-PGP: http://www.kcoates.com/0x434798B9.htm Using TB! v2.00 under Windows XP 5.1.2600 SP1 ________________________________________________________________ . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQE/U/KjRbTFvUNHmLkRAlrNAKDTo0Zn1PGJvy6rE6d6gon2kkB0hgCg7WRE T4PyOQjhzepb7xC0zahuJZo= =4Mn+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.00 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
