Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

["Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>]

I got more messages from Internetworkers about Sobig than anything else.  As
a matter of fact, I didn't get a single sobig email at all.  Perhaps you
should stop letting your email software sleep around so much. :-)

Oh, and I do run XP Pro and Outlook Express, so it's not security through
obscurity like some people...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Minton" <dminton AT mindspring.com>
To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] sobig, yet soannoying


> Is this a case of "if you use Outlook with the preview pane, and you
> previewed the message, you automatically ran the attachment?"
>
> I use Entourage X (with the preview pane disabled) under OS X, so I have
not
> put much thought into the mechanics of how Windows users allow their
> computers to get infected.
>
> David
>
> On 8/22/03 10:48 AM, "Rebecca O Connell" <rloconne AT unity.ncsu.edu> wrote:
>
> > Can a .pif file be launched by opening a Word file? A coworker of mine
got a
> > message saying that a .pif virus had been caught and quarantined when he
> > opened a Word file that a colleague sent him (one that he had been
expecting,
> > that looked as expected when opened).
> >
> > Also, do you always have to open the attachment in order for the virus
to
> > work? We got the Sobig virus here (and possibly a few others as well)
and I
> > have a hard time believing that as many people open suspicious
attachments as
> > got the virus. I love my Mac. And my Mac loves me. It does.
> >
> > On 8/22/03 10:30 AM, "Ruth Suehle" <wuzzled AT nc.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> >>> Anyone gotten spammed by Sobig?  I've gotten somewhere around 10
emails in
> >>> the last 24 hours,
> >>
> >> You poor poor thing. Between my work address (particularly the public
> >> webmaster-type address) and my home spam-target address and the variety
of
> >> worms this week, I've deleted nearly 2000 messages since Tuesday.
> >>
> >>> Anyone else had similar experiences?
> >>
> >> Yeah, you might say that.
> >>
> >> Ruth
> >>
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