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Name: Rajesh Vaccha
Date: August 21, 2003 at 04:55:56 Pacific
OS: Win XP
CPU/Ram: 256
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Hello,

I am using Windows XP and MS Outlook 2003. Since the last two days I am getting a TON of junk emails.

Basically it seems to me that some virus has infected some computer and then emails are being sent to all the people in that computers address book, and then it is multiplying each time.

I am getting repeated mails from the same 15-20 email addresses with the same topics, e.g. your application, wicked screensaver, Thank You

The emails have some attachment called your_document.pif. Outlook gives me a warning not to open the attachment.

These are NOT PORNOGRAPHIC EMAILS OR subjects, i mean the senders addresses include corporate addresses, university addresses, thus I thought it is some virus passing through multiple address books in multiple computers.

Can someone please help

Thanks



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Name: Zuke
Date: August 21, 2003 at 05:08:58 Pacific
Reply:

This is the SoBig Virus see

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

If you opened any of the attachments download the fixit program and run it on your computer.


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