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Evil Chris
08-27-2003, 04:29 PM
I thought I might be, but I grabbed the fix for it, and found that I wasn't infected after all.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sobig.f@mm.html

If you want to check for yourself.

pornodoggy
08-27-2003, 09:07 PM
Nifty little tool. I haven't got it either, but I'm pretty anal about downloading and installing every Win patch as soon as it comes out. I've seen at least a couple of people posting about getting it who are also quite fond of ranting about the evils of Microsoft and going on about how they don't trust them.

Evil Chris
08-28-2003, 08:49 AM
It's not a patch. It's just a special scanning device that Symantec is giving away for free for this particular worm virus.

Nothing to install, just run it and it checks your sytem for the virus.

twinkley
08-28-2003, 01:10 PM
I thought I was too!

Connor got an email from "me" as the from info with it! I freaked out!!

Until our programmer chris told me how it works ... this is what it does

It exploits someone you know that runs outlook.

It then auto-sends itself out using the address book for both the TO: AND FROM: addresses!! SNEAKY!

So you may get a mail with it from someone you know, but they didnt necc. send it - someone you BOTH know has it!

twinkley

poppy
08-28-2003, 05:06 PM
Not infected, but gosh damn I keep getting shady emails and I just delete delete.