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From: "Braswell Family" <>
Subject: Re: [VIRUS] Sobig virus
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 12:23:52 -0500
References: <003d01c372b2$37cdb880$6564a8c0@della> <00b901c372c4$3b014000$30949dce@0019995014>


Just delete and go on.

----- Original Message -----
From: "sharon cox" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 4:09 AM
Subject: Re: [VIRUS] Sobig virus


: Hey guys this has happened to me too. Also I keep getting the message from
: Microsoft telling me to download a patch immediately. Now Microsoft
doesn't
: send their messages this way, Does anyone get messages from a foreign
entity
: that wants to give them some money that is supposedly tied up in a Swiss
: bank.
: Sharon
: ----- Original Message -----
: From: "Rachel" <>
: To: <>
: Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 3:00 AM
: Subject: [VIRUS] Sobig virus
:
:
: > I have had 2 emails from compamies saying they had intercepted an email
I
: had tried to send containihg the Sobig virus. I have not sent the emails
: and the addressees are ot in my address book.
: >
: > I run WIN XP Home and NAV2002 and my virus protection is bang up to
date.
: I also have Zone Alarm PRO. A virus scan to-day comes up with no
: infection. I assume that someone else's computer is affected and that my
: address is on that computer and being used to send the virus.
: > I assume too these emails are routine messages from the software that
: 'caught' the offending virus before it got to their client.
: > Am I right about this and is there anything else I should be doing to
: protect myself. My daughter uses my PC and, worryingly, she is less
: security conscious than I am.
: >
: > Copy of one of these emails below
: > _______________________________________________
: > WARNING! You have attempted to send an unacceptable message to the
: following address:
: >
: >
: >
: > The recipient has been warned.
: >
: >
: >
: >
:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
: ------
: >
: >
: > The message has been checked by the GMS JUCE Protection Package.
: >
: >
: >
: >
:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
: ------
: >
: >
: > The following issues were found:
: >
: > Attachment: your_document.pif Virus Name: W32/Sobig.F@mm (exact)
: >
: >
: >
: >
:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
: ------
: >
: >
: > The message headers follow:
: > _____________________________________________________
: >
: > Rachel
:
:


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