Spam attack!

[daniel]

Is it me or has everyone been bombarded with spam in the past 24 hours (more then the usual)..

I am getting so many emails with attachments, taking up my entire mail box!! I just cancelled the email forwarding function on many of my problem domains.

 

[.com.net.org]

delete them.

 

[cyphix]

http://www.dnforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37263

 

[daniel]

Yeah, were deleting them, just a big hassle!

 

[Jack Gordon]

there was a nice lull due to the blackout last week. looks like they are making up for lost time

 

[wyvern]

What you are probably seeing is the following:

W32.Sobig.F@mm is a mass-mailing, network-aware worm that sends itself to all the email addresses that it finds in the files with the following extensions:
• .dbx
• .eml
• .hlp
• .htm
• .html
• .mht
• .wab
• .txt

Email Routine Details
The email message has the following characteristics:

From: [email protected]

Subject:
• Re: Details
• Re: Approved
• Re: Re: My details
• Re: Thank you!
• Re: That movie
• Re: Wicked screensaver
• Re: Your application
• Thank you!
• Your details

Body:
• See the attached file for details
• Please see the attached file for details.

Attachment:
• application.zip (contains application.pif)
• details.zip (contains details.pif)
• document_9446.zip (contains document_9446.pif)
• document_all.zip (contains document_all.pif)
• movie0045.zip (contains movie0045.pif)
• thank_you.zip (contains thank_you.pif)
• your_details.zip (contains your_details.pif)
• your_document.zip (contains your_document.pif)
• wicked_scr.zip (contains wicked_scr.scr)


NOTE: The worm deactivates on September 10, 2003. The last day on which the worm will spread is September 9, 2003.

 

[Jack Gordon]

jeez... 10 of them in the last hour alone. this is insane!

 

[daniel]

Thats exactly what I am seeing wyvern! This thing is hitting me hard! Over 500 emails a day taking up all my mail space. We changed our email redirection until this thing settles down.

 

[adoptabledomains]

That's not so bad. I've twice had spammers spoof one of my domain names in their header and mail to random emails. One time I had 17,000 plus bounce messages, the next time I had over 12,000 before deactivating the domain. both times I had to have the host delete them direct from the server since it would take me several hours just to download them.

 

[cyphix]

My host just installed software to block these.

 

[actnow]

I am getting a lot of emails with the worm this past week. But, the worst thing is , a couple times a year someone spoofs my primary email address. And, I get the bounce back that fills my email box.

Plus, I get a couple nasty emails from people telling me they are going to sue me or report me, etc. because I am sending them spam! And, being a nice guy, I alway respond to them explaining that I did not send them the email and I am an innocent victum.

 

[DNJunkie]

Aha! i found a way to get em out of ur inbox in MS Outlook
Create a new rule which puts anything with the following subjects
Subject:
• Re: Details
• Re: Approved
• Re: Re: My details
• Re: Thank you!
• Re: That movie
• Re: Wicked screensaver
• Re: Your application
• Thank you!
• Your details
Into "deleted items" This works great for me!

 

[DotLeader]

just got more of them