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  • SoBig worm aims to turn PCs into spam machines

    08/21/2003 12:05:57 PM PDT · by HAL9000 · 22 replies · 245+ views
    Reuters | August 21, 2003
    Several Internet worms that have besieged computers for over a week played havoc again, including one called Sobig.F, whose aim was to turn PCs into spam machines and was believed to be the fastest-growing virus ever, experts said. Sobig.F drops software onto infected Windows computers that open them to be used later for distributing Internet spam -- unwanted e-mails and product promotions, experts said. It also represents a new trend in converging e-mail spamming and virus software writing, they said. "We believe [Sobig.F] has been written by a spammer or spammers" looking for ways to get past spam filters,...
  • Sobig Virus Spread is Fastest Ever; Nachi Worm Continues

    08/20/2003 8:36:10 PM PDT · by HAL9000 · 73 replies · 1,044+ views
    Dow Jones Newswires | Riva Richmond
    NEW YORK (AP)—A virus that debuted this week has been declared the fastest spreading e-mail plague of all time, while another malicious program that hit last week continued to disrupt computers worldwide. MessageLabs Inc., a company that filters e-mail for corporate clients around the world, Wednesday said it had intercepted more than a million copies of the "Sobig.F" virus the previous day, the most it has ever intercepted in a single day. That was one in every 17 e-mail messages the firm scanned. "That's just a number we've never seen before," said Brian Czarny, MessageLabs' marketing director. The most...