Sobig Virus warning

[kurchatovium]

Please be careful I got an email yesterday that was very vague and almost looked like an email from someone I knew. It is fortunate I did not extract the file and execute the program. Or I would have the virus. Exercize caution this is a zipped file that will sneak pass your virus detection programs. I examined the zip file with Mcafee and found nothing. I still deleted the file since it was suspicious. Trust your instincts as well as your virus scanners is the moral I think. The news article on this virus is included on the link below.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...&e=4&u=/nm/20030626/tc_nm/tech_virus_sobig_dc

 

[Haltickling]

Thanks!

 

[kurchatovium]

Just another heads up my friends. I got another file that was very vague. It just said Re:Movie and it has a zip file. If you don't know who is sending you something via email do not open it and definitely do not extract the file. Virus Scanners do not detect this virus (really a worm I think) because it is zipped. Once again please be careful. Thanks.

 

[f/f]

i think i got that file too. the first one was like movie.zip/something. thanks for letting everybody know it's a virus. good thing i don't open random emails.