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[b][SIZE=2]<span style="font-family:arial">Just recieved a notice regarding the upgrade of a virus to Category 3 (moderate threat) and figured I should post the details about this virus here. <div class=\'quotetop\'>QUOTE</div><div class=\'quotemain\'>W32.Sobig.E@mm is a mass-mailing worm that sends itself to all the email addresses that it finds in files with the following extensions: .wab .dbx .htm .html .eml .txt The email attempts to trick the recipient into believing it came from Yahoo(support@yahoo.com). The email message has the following characteristics:From: [email]support@yahoo.com[/email] (W32.Sobig.E@mm may also spoof the email From: field and use any available address.) Subject: The subject line will be one of the following: Re: Application Re: Movie Re: Movies Re: Submitted Re: ScRe:ensaver Re: Documents Re: Re: Application ref 003644 Re: Re: Document Your application Application.pif Applications.pif movie.pif Screensaver.scr submited.pif new document.pif Re: document.pif 004448554.pif Referer.pif Attachment: The attachment name will be one of the following: your_details.zip (contains details.pif) application.zip (contains application.pif) document.zip (contains document.pif) screensaver.zip (contains sky.world.scr) movie.zip (contains Movie.pif) NOTE: W32.Sobig.E@mm worm de-activates on July 14, 2003.[/b][/quote] Anyone using Norton AntiVirus that has their definitions updated to June 25 are protected against this.I advise all members to update their antivirus software of choice (and if you don't have any yet,get some-it's pretty much required software these days).[/b]</span>[/SIZE]
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