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by James Robertson.
Original Post: Sobig still spreading
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I don't need to lok any further than my inbox to tell me that Sobig.F is still spreading like a fire in a dry forest. I'm getting a steady drip - 3-10 virus mails - on every download of mail. Most of them are coming into my Cincom account, and have the attachment stripped by the corporate mail system - but I'm still dealing with the detritus down here. The interesting thing now is some of the forged 'from' addresses - I've received mail allegedly from marketing feedback points at CNN and Fox news now. For someone interested in doing the research, there's an interesting "Six degrees of separation" paper in all this...
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