Guest Retro Rob Report post Posted August 20, 2003 Lately I have been getting bombarded by these new virus e-mails that are going around. I'm pretty sure that they are also being sent from my e-mail address. Is this just going to be a phase that will diminish over the next several days, or will this be around for a while. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest El Satanico Report post Posted August 20, 2003 You sure you didn't open one of them and got infected? My computer did that a year ago because I got it infected without knowing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JHawk 0 Report post Posted August 20, 2003 I had 25 of them overnight, and I never open them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Eagan469 Report post Posted August 20, 2003 The virus is in the form of a PIF extension, so if you get PIF attatchments don't open them. If you did open them, here's Symentic's free scanner they just released to eliminate the virus: http://go.fark.com/cgi/fark/go.pl?IDLink=6...er/FixSbigF.exe Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MrRant 0 Report post Posted August 20, 2003 You can download a free scanner that works just as well as Norton from - http://www.grisoft.com . It will scan your incoming/outgoing e-mail and works in the background etc. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest OnlyMe Report post Posted August 20, 2003 Not only does the virus send itself TO people on the infected computer's addressbook, but it fakes the "from" address to a random name on there. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest TheBigCalbowski Report post Posted August 20, 2003 My Yahoo email is infected with that virus. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Downhome 0 Report post Posted August 20, 2003 What are the emails usually titled, as in the subject, that has this virus? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Retro Rob Report post Posted August 20, 2003 Stuff like "Deatils" or "My Details". It is apparent when you have one because the titles are very vague and repetitive. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Razor Roman Report post Posted August 21, 2003 Not only does the virus send itself TO people on the infected computer's addressbook, but it fakes the "from" address to a random name on there. Right, which is why you may get emails back from other people (some that you might not even know) saying that you sent them an email that contained a virus. The college I work for has RAV Antivirus on its email server, and since college professors are TERRIBLE about viruses I get a few emails a week saying "You tried to send the following message... it was deleted because it contained a virus" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest stardust Report post Posted August 21, 2003 I had close to 50 of those random emails in my yahoo mailbox today, all of them titled "re: your application" or something like that. I just deleted all of them, but I'm wondering how they got in. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Mad the Swine Report post Posted August 21, 2003 My local ISP has a spam blocker and a virus blocker that lets you know that it's detected a potential virus. You can view the email, but the with the attachment mentioned but unaccessable. It's had a field day the last two days. I'm getting the subject lines: 'your details', 'wicked screensaver', 'thank you', and 'that movie'. But the funniest thing so far is the one of the return email addresses was a familiar one: it was the exact same as the one for Goldberg's website when he was in WCW. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest stardust Report post Posted August 21, 2003 Yeah, I got like two from Netflix titled "re: the movie you requested." And I've never even been to the Netflix site. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest stardust Report post Posted August 21, 2003 Email Virus fastest-spreading virus ever, some say Ends up it's called the Sobig virus. Thank God for firewalls and not opening up suspicious emails. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JHawk 0 Report post Posted August 21, 2003 I actually got two of them from Mike Tenay's e-mail address. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mik 0 Report post Posted August 21, 2003 Mine has already stopped. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MarvinisaLunatic 0 Report post Posted August 21, 2003 I always wondered what would happen if I opened one that I got in my yahoo mail address (which, is actually my only email address). Im under the impression that to get an email virus you have to use something like Outlook/Outlook express or something like that. I don't (and you can't with yahoo unless you pay for the service).. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AboveAverage484 0 Report post Posted August 22, 2003 My norton antivirus will pop up and say it can't eliminate the virus, mine is something like msrexe.exe or something. I don't get them on hotmail, they seem to come through MSN Messenger on my computer, which is shit i don't even use. Downloaded a firewall though it's probably too late to stop this one. any one know how to stop this bastard. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Tom 0 Report post Posted August 22, 2003 Marvin, the Sobig worm has its own SMTP client so that it can mail itself out independent of your email program. It also scans your files for email addresses instead of just using an address book. Outlook and OE are vulerable (as usual), but this worm isn't unique to them. The fixes are readily available and pcmag.com has some news on how it works and spreads. I really wish the people writing these worms (this one, Backdoor.Roxy, and the others which have shown up in the past couple weeks) would take a break. I miss the days of being able to do next to nothing at work. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Retro Rob Report post Posted August 22, 2003 Well that scanner did not find the Sobig worm on my computer, but I keep getting a shitload of e-mails. I'll just wait it out. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Downhome 0 Report post Posted August 27, 2003 I keep getting "mailer-daemon" emails. It looks like email that I tried to send out and it's returned to me, only, I've never sent emails to any of the people it says I have. Is this the same virus? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest OnlyMe Report post Posted August 30, 2003 Yes Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
