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'Sobig' virus traced to Canadian computer
Ottawa Citizen ^
| August 23, 2003
| Brian Krebs and Joseph Menn, with files from Jason Fekete
Posted on 08/23/2003 5:38:47 PM PDT by gitmo
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To: b4its2late
Computers probably rejected the day's propaganda.. "ERROR - ERROR - DOES NOT COMPUTE"
41
posted on
08/24/2003 9:34:34 AM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(Are we conservatives, or are we Republicans?)
To: gitmo
This just in...
Viruses and Porn Sites are linked.
Who would have thought?
42
posted on
08/24/2003 9:51:53 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
(Note left on my door by a pack of neighborhood dogs.)
To: lilylangtree
I've been bouncing and deleting ASAP
When you say "bouncing", do you mean that you've been sending them back to the sender?
If so, that's not helping much. As I recall, this virus forges the sending address. It picks two random email addresses from those that it finds laying about in files on an infected PC, sending a copy of itself to one of the addresses, claiming to be sent from the other.
So sending complaints to the apparent sender is just more noise.
To: Pharmboy
My EYESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To: backhoe
I happen to be one of the poor schmucks whose email was plucked at random as the "sender" address for this thing. I've gotten about a dozen undeliverable/bouncebacks that I never sent, all with a fat worm enclosure file.
45
posted on
08/24/2003 6:04:58 PM PDT
by
ZviTheWise
("Everybody in this house needs to calm down and eat some fruit or something." -- Mel Gibson, "Signs")
To: Pharmboy
Good God, man, that was obscene beyond my wildest imagination.
Have you no decency sir? At long last, have you no decency?
46
posted on
08/24/2003 6:16:00 PM PDT
by
Imal
(The World According to Imal: http://imal.blogspot.com)
To: kitkat
My grand daughter called me Monday and said her pc was crashing on bootup and she couldn't get on line long enough to download a fix. She (they) have cox.net with a linkys router to run a old iMac in another room. I told her to use the Mac to get the instructions for the fix so she could get the pc online long enough to download all the patches. It worked. If the mac had a floppy she could hve done it that way also. I LOVE MY MAC...
To: tubebender
Oh, COOL!
I LOVE MY MAC, too. I used Windows for ten years , and recently switched. It's an OSX, and besides being dependable, it also takes up so much less space on my desk. I do admit that learning OSX is a challenge, but I'm getting there.
Bet your granddaughter was thrilled that you got her back on line.
48
posted on
08/24/2003 7:58:46 PM PDT
by
kitkat
To: kitkat; tubebender
Bump.
To: gitmo
bump and thanks.
50
posted on
08/25/2003 6:07:15 AM PDT
by
wasp69
(Remember, Uday in Pig Latin is DU)
the virus made an unexpected turn and download an address for an adult Web site. The virus is quite possibly work for hire by a spammer. I assume law enforcement are investigating the site that received this traffic.
51
posted on
08/25/2003 7:06:48 AM PDT
by
D-fendr
To: Cindy
Thanks for posting the links Cindy.
Got 'em bookmarked!
52
posted on
08/25/2003 10:50:43 AM PDT
by
appalachian_dweller
(If we accept responsibility for our own actions, we are indeed worthy of our freedom. – Bill Whittle)
To: appalachian_dweller
re post no. 52...You're welcome.
53
posted on
08/25/2003 1:48:34 PM PDT
by
Cindy
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