[X Newbies] Massive e-spam

[John Wilson]

Yep, these are the products of "SoBig", the pride and joy of the 
Windows world. Even though we Mac users are immune to its damage, we're 
affected by the waste of bandwidth (much like this email) and the 
hassle of having to wear the ink off our Delete keys. John

On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 02:15  AM, TheMacintoshLady wrote:

> aussieblnd tapped out this message on 8/21/2003 1:50 AM
>
>> Sounds like someone has a Virus auto spread through email
>
> I was at a friend's house today and saw the front page story in the 
> paper
> about SoBig virus being "worse than Blaster Worm" and it gave all the
> titles of the emails one might get and all the names of the files that
> might be attached.
>
> Sure enough when I got home they were all in my mailbox.
> .pif files mostly. Just deleted them.