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It's not that long since the Love Bug et al, and virii are becoming more and more advanced worms/trojans/virii are popping up left right and centre. However, I was reading this article on news.com and thought it may interest you.
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The SoBig.F virus spreads by harvesting e-mails from Web pages and from the address book of an infected computer. It sends a copy of itself to the addresses in an e-mail message with a subject lines such as "Your Details" "Re: Approved," and "Thank you!" The virus also spreads by copying itself to shared network hard drives that are accessible to the infected computer.
Stratton said he doesn't think his company nor his clients were infected with the virus, but the amount of e-mail generated by SoBig.F caused enough of a headache.
"Once I figured it out, I was fine. But I found our customers were getting killed with the number of e-mails created," he said.
The SoBig variant isn't all that different from previous versions of the worm. The family of viruses is thought to have been created so that spammers can use victims' computers to send bulk e-mails anonymously. Compromised systems connect to an Internet server specified by the virus and download a Trojan horse, Kuo said.
While the mass-mailing virus hasn't changed much, people still open the attachment and infect their computers, he said.
"The education is slow," Kuo said. "We would have figured that this mechanism should have died out a year ago, but people still do click on e-mail attachments."
So the question is: Has education in virii protection worked, and is the old school method of spreading virii by attachments dead?
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The SoBig.F virus spreads by harvesting e-mails from Web pages and from the address book of an infected computer. It sends a copy of itself to the addresses in an e-mail message with a subject lines such as "Your Details" "Re: Approved," and "Thank you!" The virus also spreads by copying itself to shared network hard drives that are accessible to the infected computer.
Stratton said he doesn't think his company nor his clients were infected with the virus, but the amount of e-mail generated by SoBig.F caused enough of a headache.
"Once I figured it out, I was fine. But I found our customers were getting killed with the number of e-mails created," he said.
The SoBig variant isn't all that different from previous versions of the worm. The family of viruses is thought to have been created so that spammers can use victims' computers to send bulk e-mails anonymously. Compromised systems connect to an Internet server specified by the virus and download a Trojan horse, Kuo said.
While the mass-mailing virus hasn't changed much, people still open the attachment and infect their computers, he said.
"The education is slow," Kuo said. "We would have figured that this mechanism should have died out a year ago, but people still do click on e-mail attachments."
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