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Sobig II?

by Ross at 09:10AM (EDT) on August 28, 2003 | Permanent Link

My Junkmail Folder Since 7am, I've received at least 200 Sobig induced messages. They are coming in at a rate that exceeds what I was seeing last week.
Is this a second wave?
[Update: 10:22am - I've received well over 500 now! No sign of slowing down.]

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Re: Sobig II?

by a reader (name not saved) on Thu 28 Aug 2003 12:19 PM EDT | Permanent Link

Hope you got your spam filter set up to filter them away, that's what I did ;-)

Re: Sobig II?

by a reader (name not saved) on Thu 28 Aug 2003 12:21 PM EDT | Permanent Link

Uggh. Looks like another wave. I just added four more "big offenders" to my block list. These are machines that have sent 100+ infected messages since midnight. I'm blocking them at the firewall to try and take some load off the mail server, which is still gasping for air. So far today I've trapped over 3,000 infected messages (compared to about 50 on a normal day).

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