RE: Somebody here may have the Sobig virus...

From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Fri Sep 05 2003 - 00:40:15 MDT

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    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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