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Sobig.F is 'worst variant yet'
Talkback I believe I have been infected with sobig.F virus. Online scan and Stinger), Panda (found the infected attachments) and others and I couldn't find any trace of the Sobig.F virus in the registry. Eventhough, I have never opened a .pif file.
[August 21, 2003, 11:55]
Sobig.F lingers as cure backfires
News Sobig.F is still rampaging around the Internet, two months after the virus was supposed to have terminated itself. Email security firm MessageLabs said on Friday that Sobig.F was the third most active virus in November, with some 264,000 copies...
[November 28, 2003, 16:50]
Sobig.F prevention and cure
News Sobig.F (w32.sobig.f@mm) spreads via email and shared network files and could slow email servers with excessive traffic, so it rates a 7 on the ZDNet Virus Meter. Like its siblings, Sobig.F has a built-in termination date, 10 September, 2003, and...
[August 20, 2003, 9:25]
Sobig.F prevention and cure
Talkback Apparently, SoBig.F manages to send mails in my name although I never opened any attachment.and it is Linux anyway. I am working with Linux but I have an email account at www.web.de. My email is boris.hennig(a)web.de; I am getting enough sopam so I...
[August 25, 2003, 21:14]
Sobig.F prevention and cure
Talkback After being virused earlier this year by the Sobig.f virus, and noticing bouncebacks in my email.my Norton couldn't detect it, and the easiest way to get rid of a virus is to format your hard disk drive.but then you lose all your data if you didn...
[October 15, 2003, 20:16]
Sobig.F is 'worst variant yet'
News The latest variant of the Sobig virus has the ability to spread across file-sharing networks as well as by email, making it the worst strain yet, experts warned on Tuesday afternoon. Email service provider MessageLabs has already detected 60,000...
[August 19, 2003, 18:15]
Sobig.F is 'worst variant yet'
Talkback Check out http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sobig.f@mm.html for more info. The worm uses false e-mail addresses when he copies itself--that is, it looks like it's coming from you, when it actually is stemming off someone...
[August 22, 2003, 15:00]
Sobig.F prevention and cure
Talkback We Silver Surfers haven't a clue what you are talking about! We rely on Norton Antivirus at $38.00 a year (real money £25! and hope they are on the ball! Whilst we are talking to the industry it would be great if the whole of the computer industry...
[August 21, 2003, 21:11]
Sobig.F is 'worst variant yet'
Talkback Attacks through P2P networks? Hmm, strange. Can we infer that there might be the hand of a certain group, rabidly opposed to P2P networks because it may negatew their ability to flim-flam musicians forever?
[August 20, 2003, 16:58]
Sobig.F prevention and cure
Talkback i use a web based e-mail account and that has been overrun with returned e-mail messages all with the sobig attatched files.i traced the original connection to where they came from and it was someone using a static ip address (adsl/broadband/cable...
[September 10, 2003, 13:18]
Sobig.F prevention and cure
Talkback Yes, get Norton Anti-Virus and make sure you have all of the updates. Also use Aol as your Service Provider they have built in email anti-virus protection.
[August 22, 2003, 14:18]
Sobig.F prevention and cure
Talkback i had norton virus & utilitys they are just quick fixes get rid & get zone alarm & use big fix no problems on the net then best thing i did (be safe peeps)
[October 14, 2003, 20:45]
Sobig.F prevention and cure
Talkback KEV - TECHIE ,I HAVE JUST GOT NEW COMPUTER WITH WINDOWS OFFICE XP 2000. SUBSCRIBED TO BROADBAND AOL. THE POP - US SHOCKED ME AND NOW IM REALLY WORRIED ABOUT VIRUSES . CANT REALLY AFFORD TO SPEND ANY MORE MONEY AND WAS INTERESTED TO READ THAT YOU...
[October 5, 2003, 12:49]
Sobig.F lingers as cure backfires
Talkback As George Krantz would have it, din daa daa, din doe doe" I'm surprised no-one saw this coming. Surely this is a job for Microsoft's TPF crack team. No diggety? Two out of three script kiddies can't be wrong (all the time)
[November 29, 2003, 15:49]
Sobig.F prevention and cure
Talkback I have yahoo mail and have been getting slammed w/ SoBig since yesterday september 4th. Some of the emails have my addy listed as sender and receiver! I have scanned w/ eanthology and microtrend and my system shows clean for now
[September 5, 2003, 15:25]
Sobig.F prevention and cure
Talkback Macs' were affected to by this worm. But I can't seem to find a solution for this.
[September 2, 2003, 9:06]
Sobig.F prevention and cure
Talkback I have stopped the postmasters by setting up the email filter to delete emails containing the words used by this virus.
[August 28, 2003, 1:15]
Sobig.F prevention and cure
Talkback So easy to prevent all these viruses go to www.grisoft.com and get free anti virus software with regular free updates Sorry folks its you own fault !
[September 3, 2003, 8:39]
Sobig.F prevention and cure
Talkback Avoid Norton AV, McAfee, and F-Protect. They all let in virus's even though they were fully updated. Norton let in and refused to recognize the SDbot trojan virus, causing me to lose around 3 gig of data overnight.
[August 27, 2003, 13:50]
Sobig.F prevention and cure
Talkback this sobig virus poses a worldwide threat to every one, does it affect aircraft as well
[August 26, 2003, 21:35]
