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From: Sandy P. Klein
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This message was originally submitted by spklein52@HOTMAIL.COM to the NABOKV-L list at LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU.
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This is to alert you about a new computer virus that seems to be spreading quickly via E-mail.
The "Sobig" viral worm attempts to disable virus detection software and may cause damage to your computer system and/or make it vulnerable to external control. It also spreads itself to other machines and clogs up E-mail systems.
Information about the virus is incomplete, but unlike other recent ones, this one seems very detectable. With incoming mail messages containing the virus:
the subject will be one of these:
Re: Movies
Re: Sample
Re: Document
Re: Here is that sample
The attachment will be one of these:
Movie_0074.mpeg.pif
Document003.pif
Untitled1.pif
Sample.pif
There does not appear to be a message body.
The sender may be big@boss.com, but this could vary.
If you receive an E-mail message with any of the subjects above, or containing any of the attachments above, DELETE it at once. If possible, do not even open it for inspection.
Just highlight it with one click and DELETE it. Whatever you do, DO NOT open the attachment!
McAfee and Norton anti-virus software users should be protected against this new viral worm if they download/update their virus definitions files to the latest definitions. It is suggested that you do this IMMEDIATELY.
Further detailed information about this virus may be found at:
http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=99950
or
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sobig.a@mm.html
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