[Vwdiesel] Virus READ THIS ********************************************

Roger Brown r.c.brown at ieee.org
Wed Aug 20 08:27:01 EDT 2003


Simon Rook wrote:
>
> Getting a lot of virus's being sent to me..before you
> read any E-mails with attachements check out...
>
> http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=100561
>
> Genuine alert from McAfee not your usual hoax!

I've been getting about 200 e-mails from the Sobig virus a day for the last few days.  My mail service is filtering tham all
out, but one thing with this virus is that it's not coming from the sender of the e-mail.  It's simply using a list of harvested
e-mail addresses to both send itself to as well as to create forged e-mail headers so that it appears to come from everyone on
the address list as well.  So responding to the apparent sender to complain will not do any good.

--
    Roger



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