virus??

[Robert Weller]

You have to be careful NOT to mark the SOBIG.F  emails
as JUNK.  All of the messages use 'spoofed' e-mail
addresses, so many of them appear to come from people
you know.  If you mark them as JUNK, all future legit
messages will also go into the JUNK folder.  It's much
better just to DELETE them.  

I wrote a little rule in mail.app that simply moves
into a separate folder any messages with the 9 known
SOBIG.F subject lines:

Re: Details 
Re: Approved 
Re: Re: My details 
Re: Thank you! 
Re: That movie 
Re: Wicked screensaver 
Re: Your application 
Thank you! 
Your details

Now the SOBIG.F messages don't clutter my inbox and I
can delete them at any time.

Bob

> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:11:11 +0100
> Subject: Re: [CUBE] virus??
> From: Darrin Smart <darrin at suresoftware.com>
> Message-Id:
>
<4BEA9613-D331-11D7-A489-003065A9017E at suresoftware.com>
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 05:47  PM,
> Lacorona at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > Thanks yyou for telling me what this is called.
> Just wondering what
> > ifanything to do to protect the cubes we all are
> running after so 
> > carefully souping
> > them up and such.
> 
> I don't know if any viruses/worms exist that affect
> OSX, so really 
> there isn't anything that needs to be done to avoid
> them.
> 
> In this case we just get annoyed by all these
> spurious emails and 
> bounces that are going around right now.
> 
> I use SpamAssassin on my mailserver which is very
> effective at marking 
> these emails as spam so it doesn't really worry me.
> You could see if 
> your ISP/Network Admin can do some filtering. Not
> sure if you could do 
> it with the rules in Mail.app.
> 
>   - Darrin


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