Holy cow!

[lostcarpark]

The Sobig.F virus (which is technically a Trojan Horse rather than a virus) has been sweeping Ireland the last couple of days. Since yesterday, I have received 528 messages in my ISP account, most of which are over 100K. I would normally receive about 15-20 messages per day on this account. I hardly ever get "real" mail to this address any more. Normally I'd check it about once a week, but I'm transferring a domain at the moment, so I need to moniter it. Oddly, I don't seem to received any virus messages at all on my main account.

Edit: I don't want to download 50 megs of email, so I'm deleting them through my patented POP3 Webmail. I think the virus is overloading the poor email server, as half the time I'm getting "POP3 Greeting Not Found".

Comments

[davidstewart.livejournal.com]

Sensible approach. However, see today's Userfriendly (http://www.userfriendly.org)