I've had two of these this morning alone to my Hotmail account.
The sender shows "Mail Delivery system" (or similar) and claims to be a returned message you sent but that the system couldn't deliver.
And it includes a 101k attachment, with the file extension ".pif"
If you receive a similar message then under no circumstances should you open the attachment - it is almost certainly a virus.
It seems that virus distribution hit a new low - a warning for all of you.
[This message has been edited by Chronicles_of_Empire (edited August 22, 2003).]
Posted by Jules (Member # 1658) on :
That'll be Sobig.F, at a guess.
It really is being returned, though. Its probably been using your e-mail adress as a faked sender, which means somebody who has received e-mail from or sent e-mail to you in the past has it.
If you receive it directly, it just has the attachment (usually a .pif file) and the text 'Please see the attached file for details.'
I'm getting about 50 a day of them :-(
Posted by Maccabeus (Member # 1369) on :
So far the sobig virus hasn't attacked me, though I was hit by lovesan. I had something else shortly before that, but it gave me nothing more than an error message (which, however, kept halting the programs I was trying to use to get rid of it).
Posted by Hildy9595 (Member # 1489) on :
Pull in McAfee virus protection and keep it up-to-date. It filters out all these worms -- I've been notified that it caught LovSan, Sobig, and ~2.exe alone in the past two weeks. It is worth every penny.
Posted by Jules (Member # 1658) on :
What it doesn't do is filter out all the messages telling you that someone has sent a virus from your address.
Why do they insist on doing that? :-(
Posted by srhowen (Member # 462) on :
My Norton caught sobig and the dang blaster worm thingy---
Yes worth evey penny
Shawn
Posted by loggrad98 (Member # 1724) on :
Just to add a literary note to this thread, "insiduous" is not a word...the word you were most likely looking for was "insidious"....there, dont cha wysh yew spook gud english lik wut eye duz??