Sobig.E Virus WarningJun 26, 2003 at midnight to Jul 2, 2003 at 11:59 p.m.
Time:
Jun 26, 2003 at midnight to Jul 2, 2003 at 11:59 p.m.
Location:Campus Computers
Audience:Campus
Attendancenone
Description
W32.Sobig.E@mm is a mass-mailing worm that sends itself to all the email addresses that it finds.
The email message has the following characteristics:
From: any 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)
There is a removal tool at symantec: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sobig.e@mm.html
ContactRebecca Hulett — 507-933-7130