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Re: Don't beat me, but i've noticed a huge influx of these .pif virii today.
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:12:22 -0400
In message <75634F04BFCFD511BF69009027DC86495C63B5 () mailman thenap com>, Drew We aver writes:
Don't kill me for posting this, it may be slightly off topic but I have noticed a very odd spike in traffic with these virii that have .pifs attached to them. The subject is random. The body always says: "See attached file for details" and they're always a pif file. Anyone else notice this?
Please don't post in html. Anyway -- it's the sobig.f virus. According to http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sobig.f () mm html it scans a variety of file types on the infected machine to find email addresses to abuse. It's not always a .pif file; sometimes, it's a .scr file. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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