A somewhat sinister update on the SoBig virus

[Dan Murphy]

MSNBC news story

A FRANTIC GLOBAL hunt was under way from the United States to South Korea to find and switch off 20 home computers with high-speed broadband connections that were due to be targeted by hundreds of thousands of computers infected by Sobig.F at 3:00 p.m. ET Friday..................

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,112121,00.asp

http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/holes/story/0,10801,84273,00.html


I sure know I have been getting my share of email returns.

 

[Eeyore1954]

Our company's network started going down around 8:30 a.m. yesterday and by 9:15 everything crashed. We finally got back online around 3:30 p.m., but today it appears we are getting hit again. The techs can barely keep up with it.

Our email is working -- slowly -- but I am wearing out my delete key, zapping emails/spam that are still getting through all our filters.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Actually, I just went to my comcast email, on the Net, not my Outlook, and there was 94 SoBig emails that Comcast had screened and dumped in a 'screened' folder, before even hitting my Outlook. They had consumed 89% of my allocated 10 megs of email space. I think it is going to be a tough few days ahead.

You night check your online service as I did to see if you have pre-screened emails there. Just an FYI.

 

[always quiet]

Yikes! Thanks for the heads up Dan! I'll have to go check my computer!

 

[Annie&Hallie'sMom]

I'm dreading coming back to work on Monday. I am getting several hundred of these emails a day (delete, delete, delete). What's going to happen from Friday evening to Monday morning?

Sigh.