Sort of OT: SOBIG Virus

[Guest guest]

I've been getting a LOT of emails with the SoBig virus attached.

So much so that it fouled me up with my service provider,

and I talked to him about the virus some.

Here is the deal: you can be infected with this virus and

not know it. It scans your email, and attaches a random

name to the " From " space, and sends mail to a random

name, both names being from your email list. It mails

in the background, so you have no way of knowing you

are sending these emails.

Now since I'm getting a lot of these, they are probably

from people I write to (i.e. my email is on their list)

so I'm just giving everyone I write to a heads up. If you

have Norton Antivirus, you might want to do a full scan,

or make sure it is scanning your outgoing mail. One person

we scanned that I know for sure had it. Chances are, if

you don't do a system scan and keep your virus defs up

to date, you have it.

This really, really is not a hoax. It's not a virus that will

eat up your disk or anything, but it is darn annoying.

See:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sobig.amm (DOT) html

-- Heidi