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Monday, June 02, 2003

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Sobig worm virus
New Email Virus.

New Email Virus

Ouch!

A variant of the Sobig worm that appeared over the weekend is now spreading rapidly, security experts have warned.

This is the third Sobig variant to hit the Internet this year, and the experts believe more variants may already be in the pipeline, as the virus is set to self-terminate on June 8.

The new version, W32/Sobig.C-mm, had already reached a "high level" outbreak status by Monday, according to security analysts. U.K.-based MessageLabs, which offers e-mail outsourcing to companies around the world, said it had stopped nearly 17,000 copies of the virus in the past 48 hours, placing the virus in the No. 2 position on the company's list of most-prevalent viruses.

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The e-mail can have one of several subject lines, such as "Approved," "Re: 45443-343556" or "Re: Application." The body always reads: "Please see the attached file." The attachment is called "document.pif", "screensaver.scr" or a similar name, using a .pif, .txt or .scr extension.

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