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On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 20:10:10 +1000, "Phil Allison"
<philallison@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
peoples email addres lists and then starts sending out emails in other
peoples names. Pople have even found sobig suscribing them to mailing
lists and randomly sending out emails to anyone and everyone on the
internet including newsgroups. It doesn't even need to infect your
computer, it can infect someone elses computer, get your email
address, then starts sending out emails using your email address.
sobig even has email subroutines in it.
Typical subject lines include these:
Re: Details
Re: Approved
Re: Re: My details
Re: Thank you!
Re: That movie
Re: Wicked screensaver
Re: Your application
Thank you!
Your details
and attachments such as:
application.zip
details.zip
document_....zip
movie....zip
thank_you.zip
your_details.zip
your_document.zip
wicked_scr.zip
Also there is more info at:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sobig.f@mm.html
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/sobig_f.shtml
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32sobigf.html
http://www.sophos.com/sobig
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/articles/sobigextra.html
http://www.f-secure.com/news/items/news_2003082200.shtml
Sig:
Westheimer's Discovery: A couple of months in the laboratory can save a
couple of hours in the library. -Frank H. Westheimer, chemistry professor
(1912- )
<philallison@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
Actually this might be caused by a virus called sobig. It scansSome stinking POS calling itself "Tony Pearce" or " Trevor " is
faking messages from me.
Complain to his ISP for illegal posting - have the stinking turd kicked
off usenet.
peoples email addres lists and then starts sending out emails in other
peoples names. Pople have even found sobig suscribing them to mailing
lists and randomly sending out emails to anyone and everyone on the
internet including newsgroups. It doesn't even need to infect your
computer, it can infect someone elses computer, get your email
address, then starts sending out emails using your email address.
sobig even has email subroutines in it.
Typical subject lines include these:
Re: Details
Re: Approved
Re: Re: My details
Re: Thank you!
Re: That movie
Re: Wicked screensaver
Re: Your application
Thank you!
Your details
and attachments such as:
application.zip
details.zip
document_....zip
movie....zip
thank_you.zip
your_details.zip
your_document.zip
wicked_scr.zip
Also there is more info at:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sobig.f@mm.html
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/sobig_f.shtml
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32sobigf.html
http://www.sophos.com/sobig
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/articles/sobigextra.html
http://www.f-secure.com/news/items/news_2003082200.shtml
Sig:
Westheimer's Discovery: A couple of months in the laboratory can save a
couple of hours in the library. -Frank H. Westheimer, chemistry professor
(1912- )