[ale] question about sobig

[Irv Mullins]

On Wednesday 20 August 2003 07:55 am, John Marasco wrote:
> Selected quote about the SoBIG virus...
>
> But even those who werenÂ’t directly infected with the virus were
> struggling with it. When it replicates, the virus “spoofs” the sending
> e-mail address. That means the “From:” line is faked, selected from a
> list of e-mail addresses culled off the Internet. Users unlucky enough
> to be used in SoBig’s “From” line can get hundreds of SoBig-related
> complaints, including automated bounce messages saying the virus didnÂ’t
> reach its recipient, or irate messages from recipients who think theyÂ’ve
> been sent a computer virus.

I notice that many of the bounces I am getting say that the recipient's 
account is "over quota". If that means what I think it means, then a lot 
of legit mail is also being lost because of this virus.

Irv



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