Sobig worm has returned and it is a little different.

[PN]

W32.Sobig.F@mm
Discovered on: August 18, 2003
Last Updated on: August 20, 2003 09:32:20 AM





NOTE: The worm de-activates on September 10, 2003. The last day on which the worm will spread is September 9, 2003.

Symantec Security Response has developed a removal tool to clean the infections of W32.Sobig.F@mm.

Also Known As: Sobig.F [F-Secure], W32/Sobig.f@MM [McAfee], WORM SOBIG.F [Trend], W32/Sobig-F [Sophos], Win32.Sobig.F [CA], I-Worm.Sobig.f [KAV]

Type: Worm
Infection Length: about 72,000 bytes

Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP
Systems Not Affected: Linux, Macintosh, OS/2, UNIX, Windows 3.x


http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ven...obig.f@mm.html

[This message was edited by PN on 08-20-03 at 09:02 PM.]

[scott7065]

I got over 90 emails today that norton detected as W32.Sobig.F@mm

-Scott

[Max]

Originally posted by Slim:

I got over 90 emails today that norton detected as W32.Sobig.F@mm

-Scott

I'm under constant attack on my yahoo adress...



Is there anyway to punish people who do it?

[krstofer]

And it's supposed to download a bunch of as-yet unexplained "stuff" tonite.
Hmmmmm....

http://krstofer.org

[Wise Young]

Even though this virus does not affect Macs (OS9 or OSX), I have been terribly affected by it. It seems that thousands of people have my email address on their computers. So, not only am I getting a huge number of these emails with .pif attachments but it is apparently sending out a ton of email that is masquerading as being from me. Compounding the problem are the number of emails that servers are sending me from all over the world trying to tell me that I sent a virus, which I most adamantly did not.

I think that my email provider finally put up a virus shield that stripped the .pif attachment to the emails, so that it is not overloading my server. I don't know what the solution is but I think that anybody caught writing these worms and viruses should be sequestered in a special jail to read the .pif files they created out loud.

Wise.

[alan]

Why so merciful?

OS/2 also isn't bothered by Windows virii directly.


Alan

[Janet McDonald]

Originally posted by Wise Young:

Even though this virus does not affect Macs (OS9 or OSX), I have been terribly affected by it. It seems that thousands of people have my email address on their computers. So, not only am I getting a huge number of these emails with .pif attachments but it is apparently sending out a ton of email that is masquerading as being from me. Compounding the problem are the number of emails that servers are sending me from all over the world trying to tell me that I sent a virus, which I most adamantly did not.

I think that my email provider finally put up a virus shield that stripped the .pif attachment to the emails, so that it is not overloading my server. I don't know what the solution is but I think that anybody caught writing these worms and viruses should be sequestered in a special jail to read the .pif files they created out loud.

Wise.

Yes, Wise

It is not funny...your proposed punishment would be the right answer.
Next to my house there is the center of the computer net of the University.... they had a total break down.... every Institute was affected. A ton of e-mail sent by me? Though I did not use the computer as long as these mails have not been deleted? What a horror vision.

Janet