VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE I RECEIVED FROM THE ACC HELPDESK--PLEASE READ!!!

 

 

If you receive an email from someone (From: field is forged using a random address from a victim)  with the following subjects:

Re: Details
Re: Approved
Re: Re: My details
Re: Thank you!

Re: That movie
Re: Wicked screensaver

Re: Your application
Thank you!
Your details

DELETE IT IMMEDIATELY; DO NOT OPEN IT or ITS ATTACHMENT.

This is the Sobig(F) virus, it could have the following text in the body of the message:

See the attached file for details
Please see the attached file for details and one of the following as an 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)

The purpose of the virus is to steal confidential information (such as email addresses) and to make the infected pc available as a SPAM relay (forwarding email for SPAMMERS to avoid the blocking lists set in place by system administrators).  More details can be found at:


http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sobig.f@mm.html

 

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