Alert : Sobig virus is flying about.

[Guest Will]

I and many other forum members and Moderators have been inundated with emails containing the W32.Sobig.F@mm virus.

The senders name and email address are fake (selected from your addressbook).

Please check you are not the cause, a removal tool can be obtained from:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcen...moval.tool.html

The emails have subjects like:

Re: Details

Re: Approved

Re: Re: My details

Re: Thank you!

Re: That movie

Re: Wicked screensaver

Re: Your application

Thank you!

Your details

Hope you can do your bit to stop it's spread.

No need to own up if you realise it was you who had it!!

Will

[Guest amo]

Thank you Will, I too have been flooded with emails from different people as well as companies (Ebuyer, Dabs to name a few!) with similar emails and similar attatcments. Stayed clear of all of them obviously but will run the tool in case it is me thats sending the emails too.

Could all other members do the same too please as there is no way if knowing who the distributor is!

[Guest Brody]

Its not me, i'm clean! :)

[Guest Richie M]

since yesterday my works has had over 3,000 instances sent to our employees :shock:

Let be carefull out there people!

[Guest Lojt]

Several people from where i work are getting mails every 30 seconds...

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

I've not had a single instance of it across 5 e-mail accounts... :)

[Guest moomoomoo]

thank fack for that, this thread has obviously alerted people into getting their system clean. I was getting about 5 an hour, but now I'm not getting any. My system was clean, I'd like to add, not my fault! :)

[Guest drblow]

Jeez - I've got 3 email accounts on this PC, & a total of 22 suspicious looking emails! Fried 'em all, and checked my system, and thankfully I'm clean, so I'm just joining the ranks of 'wasn't me, guv' kind of people!!

[Guest Vector]

I'm clean too ! :)

[Guest James]

whats the payload?

does it come as an attachment?

Posted from my SmartPhone!

[Guest dogbomb]

Today, from around 40 hours email... I got 1195 instances of this in my inbox. They are from ALL over the place, including company addresses which I wold expect to keep their virus checkers up to date. I also got around 150 or so email saying "we are returning this virus to you..." implying that *I* had sent the virus.

Impossible. I use Unix.

I am guessing that this virus spoofs the sender in many cases. That would explain why so many companies seem to be sending it to people.

[Guest Maverick]

Not fair... How come I didnt get a single email :-)

[Guest nickcornaglia]

I get at least 10+ a day. Spread thru my workplace of about 1500 users.

[Guest Uzay]

tnx for the update, didn't have any virus lately ;-( on any mail account

big cheers to dutch providers.

mayby it's a good idea to keep your desktop as updated as your phone guys...

14 years on the net learned me one thing, everbody gets them selves a virusscanner and firewall, but don't look for a license file on the net, Buy it , get your updates and your safe

[Guest Machineman]

Thanx checked my system but me so clean!! :)

I didn't have any virus lately just the most ANOYING blast virus but this is easy to remove ha ha ha :wink:

CU M8's

[Guest dan.peterson]

I have just got two emails from a random address with the subject

Returned mail: see transcript for details

And then a note at the bottom to warn me that a virus has been stripped.

And then ( and this is the bit I am suspicous of) please open the attachment to see all the details?

Anybody else had this? I see loads of email boards online seem to have messages galore, so maybe a mass mailer?

Will the attachment be the virus? Am I being over paranoid? Anybody know the cricket scores?

Cheers for any info.

DP/

[Guest Renwaldo]

I work at a large city council in the UK. My email system was not working when I went in this morning and my e-mai lprogram would not open.

I spoke to the IT department and they said across the 55,000 e-mail address they control, they have had over a MILLION e-mails today.

Needless to say, my e-mail didn't work for the rest of the day - i dread to see what is in my inbox!

[Guest]

I have just got two emails from a random address with the subject  

Returned mail: see transcript for details

I got an undeliverable mail email message the other day, but since I don't use the address it came to for out-going mail, I just ignored it.

Sounds too suspicious to me!!!

If in doubt delete!!

[Guest d.kid]

me is clean =)

[Guest mcwarre]

and me

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

I'd just like to point out that i hate:

IIS

Code Red

Nimda

THEY'RE ALL

ty.

[Guest Greywolf_Ghost]

Well it's not me. I am running a fresh format of XP, SP1 in then fully updated via Windows Update to apply the blaster fix.

When that was finished I added Norton anti virus 2003, and fully updated it.

Then I went about my e-mail and internet.

I am getting 10 -20 mail's caught and deleted a day.

This is weird too, cause last week there were no mails comming in.

Were the virus's set to attack this week????

[Guest atonks]

The so called "friendly" virus (Nachi?) is bringing us to our knees here. It's creating so much network traffic that our network can't cope.

No effin fun at all!

[Guest Thurstan]

Where I work at Orange, we're getting hit with an email containing a virus every three seconds!

Posted from my SmartPhone!

[Guest fraser]

Returned mail: see transcript for details  

And then a note at the bottom to warn me that a virus has been stripped.  

And then ( and this is the bit I am suspicous of) please open the attachment to see all the details?  

Anybody else had this? I see loads of email boards online seem to have messages galore, so maybe a mass mailer?  

Some people/companies have virus scanners that sit on the mail server and scan outgoing/incomming messages, and remove viruses from them. Wherever that mail really came from, it thinks it was you that sent it and the failure message went to you. Someone who has you in their address book must be infected.