VIRUS ALERT!
Date: Thursday, August 21 @ 09:00:00 CEST
Topic: Security
For some reason when I checked my email today I had about 217 emails in my inbox. All the emails were sent on 8/20/03. There are several hundred people on the list who sent me one also and I have no idea who they were.
All 217 emails had one of 8 topics. They were as follows:
Re: Approved
Your Details
Re: Thank you!
Re: That movie
Re: Your application
Thank you!
Re: My Details
Re: Wicked screensaver
All the emails contained an attachment and had the EXACT same message. “Please see the attached file for details.” I don’t want to alarm anyone, but this may be a problem. I would recommend a virus scan immediately. I am checking on what this could be, and will let you all know as soon as I find out.
If I have sent any messages to any of you with this content, DO NOT OPEN THEM! I did not send anything to you like this.
Ok this looks like some type of variant to the I-Worm.Sobig.e The worm was supposed to deactivate itself on July 13, 2003. Looks like there is a new one out there. Norton didn’t discover this one. So watch your virus software for updates. More information can be found on the below link:
http://securityresponse1.symantec.com/sarc/sarc.nsf/html/w32.sobig.e@mm.html
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