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Major Virus Attack Underway It Appears

Read this if you use Yahoo

         

Hollywood

6:31 am on Aug 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I am using Yahoo mail as my destination for all my e-mail accounts so that I do not risk dealing with worms through pop's.

But this virus is sending huge amounts of 100K sized e-mails that end up in my bulk mailbox, if I do not delete/empty them my mailbox fills up with mail and I no longer get my e-mail.

This appears to be a bad thing, just wanted to give some of you the heads up.

It is happening fast over the past 2 hours, by the time Monday morning rolls around much of the mail around the globe will not get to the desired place.

I think Yahoo makes up a huge amount of the globes mailboxes.

Good luck.

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7:06 am on Aug 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Hollywood

Monday afternoon has nearly gone here in Oz and the sobigf has been busy all day. I have cleared 175 of them throughout the day. The virus definitions have coped well, but, one of these days the definitions will not be up-to-date or lag just behind these nutters who want to shut the computer world down.

On average I get 275-300 emails a day and I would say 40% are now spam or virus attacks. It takes time away from work just to cope with the influx.

BTW Monday was a good day and the world did not end.

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