SoBig-F
Deano
Leicestershire, England
Right, has anybody ever heard of this virus? Is it real or another hoax?
I got an email about information about it, so i googled it and this is what it came up with:
Source: Capetimes
I got an email about information about it, so i googled it and this is what it came up with:
The worst e-mail virus ever hit computers around the world yesterday as American spammers succeeded at one stage in infecting one in every 17 messages on the internet.
The SoBig-F virus affects Windows PCs, making them covertly download a programme that turns the machine into a "zombie".
Dozens of copies of the virus are then sent via e-mail to addresses culled from the infected PC's files. The number of e-mails generated suggests that millions of PCs have potentially been infected. Users are likely to face even more unsolicited spam in coming days.
Steve Linford, chief executive of the Uk-based anti-spam organisation Spamhaus, said: "It's the most destructive thing we've ever seen. It's causing havoc on the net.
Source: Capetimes
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..or better yet, throw them a blanket party.....