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The source of the recent wave of spoofed e-mail messages?
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May 4, 2005, 11:45 AM
 
In the chat a few nights ago someone else was talking about this overload of e-mail messages coming from spoofed addresses, anyway yesterday I opened up my hotmail box to find a similar situation as described in the chat. All the messages have a subject line such as Your email address has been blocked, or password confirmation, in addition to this really dodgy looking attachment named something like your_info.zip or our_secret.zip etc... Anyone else have some insight on this? I'm assuming it's a new virus that is mass mailing via infected users' address books.
     
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May 4, 2005, 11:49 AM
 
It appears to be W32.Sober.O@mm.

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May 4, 2005, 01:38 PM
 
thanks, I'll send this link to my unfortunate windows using friends.
     
   
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