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Old 07 February 2003, 08:56 AM
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Careful, do not open it as I'm pretty sure it will contain a virus, got an e-mail simlair to that yesterday but mine was re application.
Make sure that yiur anti virus software is up to date

see http://www.sophos.co.uk/virusinfo/analyses/w32sobige.html
for more details

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Old 02 July 2003, 08:52 AM
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Anyone received an email with an attachment "your_details.zip" recently?
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Old 02 July 2003, 08:55 AM
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Sounds like the SoBig.E virus.
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Old 02 July 2003, 09:08 AM
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DEFINITELY THE SOBIG-E VIRUS your_details.zip contains a single file (detail.pif)

Clicky link to Sophos analysis
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Old 02 July 2003, 11:01 AM
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Also watch out for supposed zip files that have the file extension truncated to .zi another sure sign of a virus (can't recall which!)

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I got it from someone I've never heard of. Work mimesweeper cleaned it so the zip was empty.
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Old 02 July 2003, 11:49 AM
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Getting loads at the mo

Just deleting them as they come in
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Yep, i got one on Monday. Deleted it though, managed to get through mailsweeper, and sophos didn't detect it either.
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