Sobig is biggest virus of all

[Hova]

Source: BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/technology/3169573.stm)

The Sobig Windows virus that overwhelmed e-mail inboxes around the world is one of the fastest growing viruses ever.
E-mail filtering firm MessageLabs said it had intercepted more than a million copies of Sobig F in 24 hours, more than for any other virus.

Net service giant AOL said it had stopped more than 23.2 million copies of the virus since it first appeared on 18 August.

Security experts said the virus seemed to be created by spammers to recruit innocent machines to act as untraceable relays for their unwanted messages.

Read the full article here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3169573.stm)

[Asterix]

Recently there was temporary statement that M$ would discontinue Outlook Express the default Mail client for Windoze.....

It would great for everyone's health if they did so :)

[Carrie]

I really wish people could just get a life!

[Asterix]

Feenies wife sometimes it is abt challenge.....and hell screwing M$ :p

[Roadblock]

The difference with Sobig as opposed to these worms is, any experienced Internet person knows not to open email attachments. That is unless you know ahead of time that the person intended to send them to you. If I send an attachment, like a pic or something, I always state it in the body of the email that is what I was doing. (Even that isn't toatlly safe though, as many of them come from innocent friends who are unknowingly infected. :( )