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I think Ford has a nasty virus...

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Name: Markitect
Date: August 30, 2003 at 19:57:38 Pacific
OS: XP Home
CPU/Ram: P4/512
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I have been receiving emails with Sobig in them, all from (seemingly) Ford Motor Co. domains showing....[madza, ford. etc.]

Since last Friday morning, I've received about 25 of them.

This may be a stupid question, but it's not me, right? My Norton Int. Sec. nails/deletes it evertime ( I hope every time)...

Any thoughts?



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Name: jpers
Date: August 30, 2003 at 23:19:04 Pacific
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Yeah, thoughts: your email address is in at least one address book over at Ford - that's all. Either that or this virus spoofs Ford's domain.

You shouldn't worry much - as long as you have Norton updating itself at least daily.

If you have access to an ISP-level filter *and* you don't care if all emails claiming to originate from ford.com never reach you then you could deploy a server-level kill-filter to take them out. Most ISPs don't offer kill-filters, but many corporate/university networks do.

Server-level reporting & filtering is one of the many reasons to use a good forwarding service.

- JP


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Response Number 2
Name: ok
Date: August 30, 2003 at 23:20:04 Pacific
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sobig along with other worms/virii spoof
the email address, so it is hard to tell where
they originate from. some people get them
returned as if they sent them, when it is just their address being spoofed from someones address book.


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