Re: [gardeners] virus heads-up

Janni (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Thu, 21 Aug 2003 21:40:32 -0500 

Well, I certainly spoke too soon about not getting any of these!! Since I 
got home and started checking my mail, I have quarantined 39 of them. I 
don't recognize any ISP's or IP's or Users in the headers. Makes me mad 
that someone would actually open these!!! I am on an exotic bird list or 
two and I suspect someone there opened one and now my received list will be 
endless!!!

Janni

  05:05 PM 8/21/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Margaret: My computer is clean too. But, I keep getting ZILLIONS of emails,
>bounced by my server, that say the virus is trying to get through and they
>won't let it. I've had it actually show up on my machine once - and Norton
>zapped it. Jeez!
>
>Rosemary in KY
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Margaret Lauterbach" <melauter@earthlink.net>
>To: <gardeners@globalgarden.com>
>Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 10:30 AM
>Subject: RE: [gardeners] virus heads-up
>
>
> > Thanks, Terry, but this is part of what is so confusing about computers to
> > me.  I've never encountered any e-mail addresses with those kinds of
> > extensions.  The only e-mail addresses I've seen have extensions of .com,
> > .net, or .country abbreviation.  Or does this worm hit e-mail addresses of
> > people who visit or open URLs with those extensions?  Frankly, I've been
> > baffled because my carrier (DirecWay) sent me an alarm, telling me to go
>to
> > Microsoft, etc., and I went there and there's nothing about worms or
> > viruses or threatening clouds.  I tried to go to home users part, but that
> > was taking longer than I wanted to sit. I went back to Microsoft later,
>and
> > all I could see was that they were offering upgrades of Messenger,
> > something like Direct 9 or something like that, music and video
> > upgrades.  I'm not interested in any of that, so I got out. I scanned my
> > system, and Norton says it's clean.  I went back to Norton and asked if
> > there were any downloads I should have, and they said 4, showed 3, and I
> > downloaded those.  Everything is off, just a little.  Grrr.  I think
>fall's
> > coming early this year. What do you think?  Margaret L
> >
> > >Nope, it's a totally different one.  Here is a little of what Symantec
>says
> > >about it:
> > >W32.Sobig.F@mm is a mass-mailing, network-aware worm that sends itself to
> > >all the email addresses it finds in the files that have the following
> > >extensions:
> > >.dbx
> > >.eml
> > >.hlp
> > >.htm
> > >.html
> > >.mht
> > >.wab
> > >.txt....
> > >
> > >To read more about it you can go to:
> >
> >http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sobig.f@mm.html
> > >
> > >It was upgrade to a class 3 threat and it can also steal secure
>information
> > >including passwords.
> > >
> > >Terry
> >
> >
> >