From: Buchan Milne (bgmilnecae.co.za)
Date: Sun Aug 31 2003 - 05:59:00 CDT

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On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Vincent Danen wrote:

> On Sat Aug 30, 2003 at 10:10:59PM -0400, Jean-Pierre Denis wrote:
>
> > > <snip>
> > > It doesn't look like any virus was sent *to* the list, but someone with
> > > this address in their address book got hit and here we are.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Wasn't this the W32/Sobig.fMM virus ?
> > http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/discuss/2003-08/msg00031.php
>
> Hmmm... looks like it. Another person being unsubscribed then.
>

That's not a responsible action, considering Sobig forges From: headers. I
have received almost no mail from Sobig itself (thanks to a simple postfix
header check that covers all typical virus-sent attachments), but have
received a lot of mails from misconfigured virus scanners telling me I had
sent a virus, using Outlook Express, from somewhere in France (you can
guess how many of those are true ...).

Regars,
Buchan

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