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Re: OT: Sobig (was Re: Observation on the recent junk mail flood)

From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>
To: Kelley Cook <kelleycook at wideopenwest dot com>
Cc: Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic dot com>,Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>,gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 13:15:47 -0400
Subject: Re: OT: Sobig (was Re: Observation on the recent junk mail flood)
References: <88256D89.00143C04.00@smtpmta01.gap.com> <16196.51212.27524.309761@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <87oeyjnftf.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> <3F44FCCE.4030805@ford.com>

On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 1:09 PM, Kelley Cook wrote:

It's not an e-terrorist, it's an Outlook virus randomly picking from:
and to: addresses from its address book.
I do not think any bogus subscriptions actually succeeded.

zw
As a point of clarification, the Sobig.F virus, which is causing this mess, is not an Outlook virus. It is a Win32 executable that searches your hard drives for strings of the form *@*.* in a whole range of files including .txt and .htm{,l}.

Hey, good thing Microsoft turns that indexing service on by default. Makes viruses full text searches much faster. :)

References:
- Your resume has been received
  - From: NOTESSB02
- Observation on the recent junk mail flood
  - From: Paul Koning
- Re: Observation on the recent junk mail flood
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- OT: Sobig (was Re: Observation on the recent junk mail flood)
  - From: Kelley Cook

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