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 type82e
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| posted on September 4th, 2003 at 11:01 AM |
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sobig virus help!
my computer is being bombarded with e-mails containing the sobig virus maybe every minute or so how do I stop this can I block their addresses?
is anyone else having this problem?
my nortons anti-virus is catching them but its a pain as its constantly interupting
marcel
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Andy42
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| posted on September 4th, 2003 at 11:13 AM |
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Go here and they have the fix for it. http://www.symantec.com/avcenter |
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decked dubby
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| posted on September 4th, 2003 at 11:16 AM |
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I have recieved over 100 e-mails this morning containing a virus aswell.:cry
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HotRodMatt
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| posted on September 4th, 2003 at 11:19 AM |
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The problem is it isn't necessarily the sender that is sending the mail to you...
It spoofs addresses from the hosts.
Your ISP isn't doing the right thing. Virii of this kind should be pulled by their mail servers. Ring 'em and give 'em serve...
Doesn't matter if you fix it your end ... infectedmachines will cotinue to spew it out...
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decked dubby
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| posted on September 4th, 2003 at 11:23 AM |
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Mine are coming from 4 different senders, and I don't know any of them???
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| posted on September 5th, 2003 at 05:40 AM |
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yep . happenin to me too, got 115 emails and the outlook express keep shutting down. so does aussieveedubbers though, bit of a bummer.
Drink and drive your a bloody idiot!!! make it home you'r a legend !!!!
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decked dubby
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| posted on September 5th, 2003 at 07:44 AM |
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113 e-mails all up. All deleted now. Every e-mail had something to do with VW's or the samba????
56_oval_vw@hotmail.com
everett.barnes@samba.uk
stuff like that.
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| posted on September 5th, 2003 at 09:28 AM |
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The names come from files on the infected machine...
If the infected machine has browsed web pages any email addresses on that page will become spoofed sender addresses.
If they have mailboxes or lists of email addresses it will grab those too.
As long as you don't open the attachments you should be fine.
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| posted on September 5th, 2003 at 02:36 PM |
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Which one ?
Which version of Sobig is it ? Win32.SobigF ?
Nachi has been cutting sick on our network. The little bugger gets in and then tries to open a few ports up and bring its mates in to create havick.
Little bugger duplicates and evolves pretty well while it is at .
I have a nice big firewall to prevent that so it just overloads the bandwidth till I can delete the little bugger. Damn users bring in attachments.
Soon closed those ports down now no more viruses.
A lot of the time it isn't even coming from people you know, it is just adding extensions onto domain names at random.
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