[thelist] OT: 27 Trojans in the in-box today

Norman MacLeod gaelwolf at waypt.com
Tue Aug 19 14:55:32 CDT 2003


 
You were receiving the Sobig.F worm (Symantec's name for it), which started
hammering away this morning.  One of my clients was sending hundreds of
copies a minute to one of their own discussion groups when we were asked to
intervene and help them figure out what was going on.

	Norman 

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Holy Smokes! I received 27 trojans in my in box at an address that I never
give out, and that never receives spam.  Most had a From: of ferris.edu with
the title "Thank You" (and variations thereof). Lucky for me, I'm security
minded with all of my defence settings at "Paranoid".

Has anyone else gotten hammered?


<tip type="Anti-Virus" author="Frank Marion">

For PC users who haven't yet tried using Bayesian filtering for their spam,
I would recommend K9.

http://keir.net/k9.html

Not only does it do an excellent job of trapping spam, but as a side bonus,
it also seems to treat virus infected emails as spam. It's a extra (albeit a
soft) extra line of defence.

</tip>

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