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An explanation of the sobig.f virus

A lot of people (myself included) have been getting clobbered with sobig.f emails in their inbox. Here is an explanation of the virus, what it does, and some techniques to combat it. (Via Dave Winer.)

Macosxhints.com has instructions for filter rules you can use with your email client to avoid the sobig.f emails. It’s written for the Mac OS X Mail.app, but you should be able to modify it to suit your particular application.

August 20, 2003 | Archived in Technology