Eatwelbwel and senusalelegance – you have .pif virus!

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This morning I opened my computer to 35 new emails. About half,
including ones from the referenced posters, contained the "details .pif"
attachment. Most subject headers were "Thank you." I'm on a MAC G4
Powerbook so I just trashed 'em but thought you'd want to know someone
is trolling alt.fashion and spreading the virus.
–sk

"Stephanie K." <corio...@shore.net> wrote in news:3F4C96FE.3E467DF...@shore.net:
Note that the e–mails probably don't come from the person it looks like
they came from. Most virii spoof the return address (by picking an address
from the infected computer's address book) to make it harder to track down
the infected computer.

Some subscribers on the mailing list I run were/are infected and I was getting
400–500 virus infected messages per day bouncing from my list at the height of
the outbreak last week. However, since it's a virus, it's a bit much to accuse
people of "spreading" it to people by "trolling", either on mailing lists or
via USENET.
This virus propagates itself by sending email from infected machines to
addresses it finds in the local address book or internet cache, and uses some
of these addresses to forge the 'From: ' address. I would hazard a guess that
in 99% of the cases, the messages that were sent were sent without any
ill–intent.
For more information, see:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/954470.asp?0cv=CB10
http://news.com.com/2100–1002_3–5065494.html?tag=fd_top
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=100561
http://www.lurhq.com/sobig–e.html>
––
Julie P.
"if you don't know what is wrong with me/then you don't know what you've
missed"––Declan McManus

OH boy do I hear that one.... I got a couple from AF'ers I KNOW!!
Stevie
"

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On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 07:33:18 –0400, Stephanie K. wrote:
Those clever software weenies have it set up to blame the wrong person
for sending the virus/worm.
Somebody on a SWBELL DSL connection who has a machine named "DENISE"
has been mailing SOBIG.F over and over again.
IMHO, I think the "I" should be deleted from that machine's name.
<grin/duck>