Anyone else picking up alot of viruses? Between 2am - 11:13am my personal mail server has picked up 119 viruses, anyone else being hit really bad? The virus was reported to be: the W32/Bugbear.b(a)MM virus !!! Barry
Yup, we picked up a massive amount during that period as well .. Many of them Sobig and Bugbear, theres still quite a lot the mail server is picking up. Regards Jithen -----Original Message----- From: Barry Murphy [mailto:barry(a)unix.co.nz] Sent: Friday, 22 August 2003 11:15 a.m. To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: [nznog] viruses Anyone else picking up alot of viruses? Between 2am - 11:13am my personal mail server has picked up 119 viruses, anyone else being hit really bad? The virus was reported to be: the W32/Bugbear.b(a)MM virus !!! Barry _______________________________________________ Nznog mailing list Nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog
Yep, same.
Noticed also some company mail server have stop accepting mail responding
with Insufficient disk space.
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From: "Jithen Singh"
Yup, we picked up a massive amount during that period as well .. Many of them Sobig and Bugbear, theres still quite a lot the mail server is picking up.
Regards Jithen
-----Original Message----- From: Barry Murphy [mailto:barry(a)unix.co.nz] Sent: Friday, 22 August 2003 11:15 a.m. To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: [nznog] viruses
Anyone else picking up alot of viruses? Between 2am - 11:13am my personal mail server has picked up 119 viruses, anyone else being hit really bad?
The virus was reported to be:
the W32/Bugbear.b(a)MM virus !!!
Barry
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Yep, same. Noticed also some company mail server have stop accepting mail responding with Insufficient disk space.
From: "Jithen Singh"
Yup, we picked up a massive amount during that period as well .. Many of them Sobig and Bugbear, theres still quite a lot the mail server is picking up.
Regards Jithen
From: Barry Murphy [mailto:barry(a)unix.co.nz] Anyone else picking up alot of viruses? Between 2am - 11:13am my
It occurs to me that there are lots of Lusers around who are assuming that
they are "safe" because they are using Windows98 or because they downloaded
the worm patch. So, for mischief makers, isn't it perfect timing to
re-release some of the old viruses and catch all these people unaware? Both
Sobig and Bugbear seem to truly be back with a vengeance.
Keith Davidson
From: "Steven Schmidt"
mail server has picked up 119 viruses, anyone else being hit really bad?
The virus was reported to be:
the W32/Bugbear.b(a)MM virus !!!
Barry
On 22 Aug 2003 at 14:15, Keith Davidson wrote:
Both Sobig and Bugbear seem to truly be back with a vengeance.
Messagelabs.com reports that :"The current Sobig virus to email ratio is approximately 1 in 17 and the virus is spreading at such a rate it is expected to continue to stay at high-level status for the next few weeks. However, like past Sobig viruses, the Sobig.F virus has an expiry date and is set to deactivate on September 10th, which will effectively stop this variant from spreading further after that date." http://www.messagelabs.com/news/virusnews/detail/default.asp?contentIt emId=528®ion=america That (apparently) far surpasses the previous record of 1 in 138 messages that carried the Klez.H virus. -- Robert Gray bob(a)brockhurst.co.nz
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