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"SoBig-F... New Virus!!! and apparantly it's the worst yet"

It seems that only yesterday that msblast was here... Well infact it probably is still here, but anyway. Just doing my paperound this morning when i read something in the mirror about a new virus. Searched on google for it and found this article:

"London - The worst email virus ever hit computers around the world on Thursday as American spammers succeeded at one stage in infecting one in every 17 messages on the Internet.

The SoBig-F virus affects Windows PCs, making them covertly download a programme that turns the machine into a "zombie".

Dozens of copies of the virus are then sent via email to addresses culled from the infected PC's files. The number of emails generated suggests that millions of PCs have potentially been infected. Users are likely to face even more unsolicited spam in coming days.

Steve Linford, chief executive of the UK-based anti-spam organisation Spamhaus, said: "It's the most destructive thing we've ever seen. It's causing havoc on the Net.

"The problem is that the people who are being infected are home users or small offices with broadband connections, who are using Microsoft Windows, and because there are so many of them this (virus) has infected far more than any previous one."

Spamhaus believes that American spammers, who want to send out more messages, commissioned a programmer to write the virus which has appeared in different variants since January 2003.

Graham Cluley, technology consultant at the antivirus company Sophos, said SoBig-F has spread much faster than any other virus, including the "Love Bug" released by a programmer in the Philippines in 2000. - The Independent "

I get the goldfish one too, haven't opened it!

Has the e-mail got 'goldfish' in the subject line? as I keep getting it from people in my address book.

Either hotmail has alot of people on it or something or this virus is starting to slow it down because whenever i try and get to www.hotmail.com it says server too busy

Thankyou freeola-moderator.

Im gunna do that now.

I remember the good old days when i got about 20 emails from the same person with a "screensaver" attatched. Apparantly it must have been SoBig-c or something because i got it a while back and SoBig-F hasn't been around that long.

You are being sent the W32/Sobig.f@MM virus.

This is being sent by the sender without the senders knowledge. There is no way to track this back to the individual user who sent the virus as the senders address could be any email address that the virus found on the senders computer.

For mor information on this virus, please visit:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com /avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

We would suggest that you set up a message rule on your PC to look for any e-mail with the following subjects:
Re: Details
Re: Approved Re:
Re: My details
Re: Thank you!
Re: That movie
Re: Wicked screensaver
Re: Your application
Thank you!
Your details

Set the message rule not to download that message and to delete it from the server.

Apparently I've been sending out viruses through hotmail.. To 101cd.com too. Hehehe. Naughty.

the_aoe_slaught wrote:
> Dozens of copies of the virus are then sent via email to addresses
> culled from the infected PC's files. The number of emails generated
> suggests that millions of PCs have potentially been infected.

Good! That only leaves the other millions that deserve a PC.

Some people are sooo stupid

*ye free stuff lets click the attachment*

some peepz will neva learn

It was in The Sun today so it must be bad :) but it's not like the worm virus though is it, you do have to open the email attachment for it to do any harm, some people will never learn.