RE: [gardeners] virus heads-up
Janni (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Thu, 21 Aug 2003 11:39:11 -0500
Actually it is a variant of the Klez. Blaster is a variant of the Klez.
At 06:34 PM 8/4/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Is that a variant of the Blaster Worm? I got it the day before Norton put
>the detection on Live Update, and finally got rid of it. I have had it sent
>me 4 times since, always detected, fortunately. Lucinda
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-gardeners@globalgarden.com
> > [mailto:owner-gardeners@globalgarden.com]On Behalf Of Terry
> > Sent: August 20, 2003 2:00 PM
> > To: gardeners@globalgarden.com
> > Subject: [gardeners] virus heads-up
> >
> >
> > I just to let you all know to extra careful about spam emails you receive.
> > For the past two days I have been deluged by spam containing the
> > W32.sobig.F
> > worm, as have others. For example today in my first morning email check I
> > found 70 messages containing viruses; thank goodness I have
> > Mailwasher so I
> > can delete them off the server without downloading.
> >
> > You won't get it from the list because viruses and worms are not
> > accepted by
> > the server but you could get it from other spam.
> >
> > For those of you who have programs that bounce spam back to the sender, I
> > suggest you disable the bounce feature or uncheck bouncing on all large
> > emails so you don't get blacklisted by Spamhunter or one of the other spam
> > detectors for sending viruses.
> >
> > Terry
> >