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SoBig worm aims to turn PCs into spam machines
Reuters | August 21, 2003

Posted on 08/21/2003 12:05:57 PM PDT by HAL9000

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To: HAL9000
If your ISP has a web mail interface, it can be used to screen mail too.

My ISP does, but you have to log in to one account at a time, whereas this will let you view messages from all accounts on one screen, and apply rules or blocks quickly.

21 posted on 08/21/2003 2:36:51 PM PDT by browardchad
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To: Allegra
I've also been getting a bunch on "Mail Undeliverable" messages with those titles. My computer must be sending out spam.

Not necessarily ... the worm spoofs the 'From:' header.

I've been getting the same emails in my inbox, supposedly showing that I used Microsoft Look Out to spread the worm, and the last time I ran a Gates machine was a few weeks ago.
22 posted on 08/21/2003 3:27:07 PM PDT by Mike Fieschko
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To: HAL9000
I ran stinger - so far, it looks like my box is clean, but two others on the network were infected.
23 posted on 08/21/2003 3:28:03 PM PDT by Chancellor Palpatine ("what if the hokey pokey is really what its all about?" - Jean Paul Sartre)
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