On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, 5:18:59 PM, Cyberspace Publishing commented:

CP> I've been getting bounces containing this WORM_SOBIG.F (that's
CP> what Trend Micro's newest SIG named it) since early this morning.
CP> Nearly 70 so far!  Every single one of them come to me with one
CP> of five unique addresses in the "From:" field of the bounced
CP> message.

Me, too, and I have always thought that Sobig was a spammers
tool. I don't think it is so much that Sobig harvests
addresses from the web - it is that it harvests the
addresses from cached files on the users machine. But Sobig
also is a trojan that creates a backdoor that allows
outsiders access to a machine; other than that, it does very
little damage. So my opinion has been that Sobig is a way
for spammers to create open doors through which they can
relay through infected machines.

So basically, your problem is that someone who recently
visited the band members site is infected.



-Abigail


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