OT - SoBig Virus

[Chuck Snyder]

I'm getting barraged today with spurious e-mails that are infected with the
"SoBig" virus; fortunately, the much-maligned Norton Anti-Virus is shooting
them down left and right. Is anyone else experiencing this today, or did I
wander into a website that did me dirty??

[Mac McDougald]

Slammed with them today.
Over 200 so far, 100k each.
Having run a commercial website for 6 years now, I'm in lots of address
books, web caches, etc.
Everytime there's a new email worm that exploits email addies on hard
drives, I know early on :-)

Between that and the MSBlaster, it's been quite a two weeks, worm wise.

Mac

[Jodi Frye]

Barb, please don't go ! You have to stay...they changed it for you....it's almost the same as the old one...c'mon please stay !

[Beth Haney]

I did like the one version they had where the name of the person who posted the question was listed. That would give newcomers a little help in finding their post again. I wonder if Adobe is listening? :)

I got a bunch of those dumb SoBig virus messages yesterday, but none have come in today. Whew. I was getting really tired of having all that mail and nobody wanting to talk to me!

[Chuck Snyder]

Beth, same experience here - none today. Hopefully, the storm has
ended....for now...

[Mac McDougald]

In article <2cccf862.6@webx.la2eafNXanI>, [email]csnyder@houston.rr.com[/email] says...

> Beth, same experience here - none today. Hopefully, the storm has
> ended....for now...

Yeah, it ended abruptly for me as well.
I was doing selective download, there were so many of them, and at 100k
each were really slowing things down. Set my emailer not to download
anything over 50k.

I imagine that various email server admins added filters to keep them
from arriving and/or being sent after the first big flood.

Mac