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Old 08-27-2003, 05:29 PM   #1
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Question Are you infected with W32.Sobig.F@mm?

I thought I might be, but I grabbed the fix for it, and found that I wasn't infected after all.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com...obig.f@mm.html

If you want to check for yourself.
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Old 08-27-2003, 10:07 PM   #2
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Nifty little tool. I haven't got it either, but I'm pretty anal about downloading and installing every Win patch as soon as it comes out. I've seen at least a couple of people posting about getting it who are also quite fond of ranting about the evils of Microsoft and going on about how they don't trust them.
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Old 08-28-2003, 09:49 AM   #3
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It's not a patch. It's just a special scanning device that Symantec is giving away for free for this particular worm virus.

Nothing to install, just run it and it checks your sytem for the virus.
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Old 08-28-2003, 02:10 PM   #4
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I thought I was too!

Connor got an email from "me" as the from info with it! I freaked out!!

Until our programmer chris told me how it works ... this is what it does

It exploits someone you know that runs outlook.

It then auto-sends itself out using the address book for both the TO: AND FROM: addresses!! SNEAKY!

So you may get a mail with it from someone you know, but they didnt necc. send it - someone you BOTH know has it!

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Old 08-28-2003, 06:06 PM   #5
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Not infected, but gosh damn I keep getting shady emails and I just delete delete.
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