posted on August 20, 2003 04:00:02 AM new
Here's why some of you have been receiving mailer-damon bounce back emails...
"The e-mail message that carries Sobig.F has the subject line "Re: Details" and the message "Please see attached file for details." If a recipient clicks on the attachment, which can have multiple names ending in the .pif file extension, the computer will be infected.
The virus will then send itself out to names found in the victim's address book and will use one of these names to forge a return address. As such, the infected party may not quickly learn of the infection, while an innocent party may get the blame for helping to propagate it.
Like all the other Sobig viruses, this version is programmed to self-destruct after two weeks, in this case on Sept. 10."
posted on August 20, 2003 04:04:53 AM new
We had something similar happen with my daughters AOL account (sending spoof emails to a myriad of addresses not in her address book) a few weeks back..AOL shut down our account automatically and reset all of our passwords. AOL must have some kind of controls in place to recognize outgoing email activity.
