W32.Sobig.F@mm
The new variant of w32.Sobig, the W32.Sobig.F@mm work is spreading fast through the Toledo networks, along with almost every other network in the world. I have personally (to my webmaster account) received over 50 virus carrying emails today. Everyone should be very careful about the attachments they open right now. The other important thing to remember about this virus is that it spoofs the address that the email is supposedly coming from. In other words, I seem to have gotten the virus from myself. However, upon closer inspection, I found that it had come from some heavy equipment manufacturing company out in the boonies.
There is a lot of tech chatter (such as mine) about this worm. It is written in MSVC++ and I would love to look at the source. It shows up as hex code on your doorstep.
There are quite a few programs out there to fix this problem. Here is another fixer upper from Network Associates
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