[Sca-cooks] Check your machines everyone!

[Terry Decker]

There is a variant of SoBig out causing grief.  As I recall, it uses the
mail client address book to dummy the return addresses.  I've been getting
various types of delivery failure messages and incoming things my AV
software drops into quarantine.  There are too many possibilities to worry
much about chasing it down, though I think the origin for the stuff hitting
my machines is via a Yahoo mailing list. Load up to date AV software and
perform delete key magic.

Bear


>I'm being flooded with the messages that either have the attachment or are
>the 'mail delivery failure notices'. The boys at EFN say that someone
>somewhere got my address, probably from a mailing list, and is having fun
>running the virus through. I think it came throught here because the only
>address I recognized was Cindy Renfrow's, and this is the only place in
>common that I know of.
>
>I have not sent out anything with an attachment for probably a month or
>more. If it has an attachment , it wasn't from me! And don't open it,
>whatever you do!
>
>'Lainie