From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Fri Sep 05 2003 - 00:40:15 MDT
I'm not getting volumes; a handful per day. But they are rejection messages
from various people's anti-virus software, saying I tried to send them
worm-ridden offal, which I really really didn't. :-(
Emlyn
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Damien Broderick [mailto:damienb@unimelb.edu.au]
> Sent: Friday, 5 September 2003 3:49 PM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Re: Somebody here may have the Sobig virus...
>
>
> At 02:57 PM 9/5/03 +0930, Emlyn wrote:
>
> >I'm getting a number of bounced messages from seemingly
> random places. The
> >>From addresses are my email address, and the subjects are
> those that fit the
> >profile of the Sobig.F worm:
> >
> >http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.s
> obig.f@mm.html
>
> Me too. It's infuriating. I got unimelb's server to delete an
> old @ of mine
> that was regularly plagued with big dick ads and the like,
> and my in-box
> (no relation) has immediately filled up with crap aimed at my
> current @;
> yeah, filters help but it's a damned pest, and the volume of
> crap brought
> the server to its knees for several days. I'm still using an
> old win98 so
> the virus can't be on my machine (I gather); someone's
> address book has
> been pilfered, presumably, or lots of someones. But the
> damned genie is out
> of the bottle now, and Emmers and I and other victims are
> stuck with it, I
> guess.
>
> Damien Broderick
> [wearing my Innocent Bystander tee-shirt]
>
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