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[FlameFlash]

BTW, my outgoing mail server is being tourtured by the virus currently. I can't send out, though I can receive.

[Frozzy]

Ditto.

[blackice]

Scan for the virus here

[TheBirdMan]

Originally posted by checkMate
Ok, I thought you might have had the spam virus because of what you said about recieving all spam and no email. BUt..... I guess not. Will send our last turn to ricketyclik at hotmail dot com.

If RC does recieve many spam mails every day/night, his quota by his ISP might exceed the spacelimits when we are sending turnmails to him - and therefore those turnmails would be rejected by the ISP. Just another guess.....

[Frozzy]

We would get notification if it was a size problem. Since I have not had any turns bumped, it is obviously a problem with the ISP disabling or otherwise the POP3 account.

[ricketyclik]

Every other customer is experiencing the same problem. It's a problem with imaging the old accounts onto a new and relatively incompatable system. Also, too few staff and sobig and blaster keeping them otherwise occupied. They don't care about us newbies who they bought recently from another company.

[Nimrod]

Corporation: Group of people who provide a service or product for other people just to make more money than everyone one else in the world.

[FlameFlash]

And sadly, Nimrod has the seemingly correct definition.

[FlameFlash]

My e-mail server problem has been resolved by me bypassing my ISP e-mail server.

If you receive a message from FlameFlash2 please note it is still my regular e-mail account, I simply named it something different in my mail program so that I won't be confused later.

Gotta love IMAP.

[FlameFlash]

Originally posted by blackice
Scan for the virus here

And this works!

Many thanks blackice, saved me a call to the computer services department at work.

Downloading security updates now.

[blackice]

No biggy glad to be of help, Trend one of the best ones out there IMHumbleO.

We joke at work that Trend creates the viruses, simply because they have the fix before it comes out or very quickly there after.
Mind you if they hear, get word of, see it coming they create a fix for it and all and any possible variants at the same time.

That explains why I have had 2-3 updates to PC-Cillin per day for a week now.

Be warned people the Sobigf variant virus has a new payload. It is a trojan and no one knows what is is going to do, to date.

At the very least, block UDP port 8998 on your firewalls and your systems. That should mitigate damages somewhat by blocking the worm from downloading any further malicious code.

In other words the trojan could simply be waiting for instructions on what to do next.

SoBig.F uses the filename winppr32.exe, and that it copies itself to the Windows folder, making one of the registry entries shown here in the process. Because SoBig.F has its own SMTP engine, collects e-mail addresses from various files on an infected computer, and then forges the sender's e-mail, it is very difficult to determine who is infected based on an infected message.

There are a few manual removal options. Trend Micro provides manual removal instructions for SoBig.F

The worst of SoBig.F may not be over yet. Because of the unpredictable dangers inherent with the hidden Trojan that appears to be included with SoBig.F, every administrator should move quickly to mitigate the damage that could be caused by this worm by following the recommendations mentioned above for removing SoBig.F and blocking its communications ability.

[FlameFlash]

And for some reason, thanks to the handling of the e-mail servers at my Uni, I bet they don't know any of what you just said.

[Keygen]

Hi guys,

There is a great chance that I will be offline for a few days so if you hear nothing for the next days don't start wondering what happened to me

Please, don't next me, especially in my SuperLeague games!

Thanks

[ricketyclik]

Gentlemen, please use rick at webone dot com dot au for my email address from now on. Thanks.

[FlameFlash]

Just kick me if I haven't updated all my game groups, RC, but I think I have.