Hello everyone;
Do not take this virus lightly, it is spreading in a rapidly order.
I had 700 + junk spam emails the past 24 hours that carried this virus.
Thank goodness for Norton anti-virus, how ever , Norton did not give me
an ALERT as usual, but I knew not to open them. I went to my ISP web
mail and looked at my email there and deleted them there, the ISP tech
deleted some for me also.
I thought I would pass this along, I should have done it earlier.
Always, Imo, below is some info about this virus, what to be on the
look out for.
A new variant of W32/Sobig, W32/Sobig.f@MM is a High Risk
mass-mailing worm. It arrives as an email attachment with
a .pif or .scr extension. When run, it infects the host
computer, then emails itself (using its own SMTP engine)
to harvested email addresses from the victim's machine.
In addition, when it propagates, the worm "spoofs" the
"from: field", using one of the harvested email addresses.
Note: The worm copies itself onto the infected machine as:
C:\WINNT\WINPPR32.EXE
Caution: An infected email can come from addresses you
recognize and may contain the following information:
Subject:
- Your details
- Thank you!
- Re: Thank you!
- Re: Details
- Re: Re: My details
- Re: Approved
- Re: Your application
- Re: Wicked screensaver
- Re: That movie
Attachment:
- your_document.pif
- document_all.pif
- thank_you.pif
- your_details.pif
- details.pif
- document_9446.pif
- application.pif
- wicked_scr.scr
- movie0045.pif
Body:
- See the attached file for details
- Please see the attached file for details