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[JimH]

The Internet is having trouble today.  It is caused by a new e-mail worm called sobig.f.  If the recipient opens a message in Outlook the file executes and starts mailing messages to the address book using its own smtp server.

The slowdown occurs in part because of the flood of email that results when a virus checker on the secondary recipient's (from the address book above) PC finds the virus and mails a warning back to the person it (wrongly) thinks sent the mail.

If your virus checker is set to mail out such warning messages, please disable that feature.  This will reduce this secondary traffic.

[KingSparta]

If your virus checker is set to mail out such warning messages, please disable that feature.  This will reduce this secondary traffic.

never noticed this option, is it in Norton AV?

[NoCodeUK]

We got the brunt of it at work.  Although we didn't have the virrus ourselves a lot of people did and it was spoofing our email address so we got 2 or 3 hundred spam messages in about an hour...

Adam

[fex]

Same here in Switzerland.

[graham131]

never noticed this option, is it in Norton AV?

It's in McAfee

[KingSparta]

It's in McAfee

ok

never had much luck with McAfee programs and after $200 or so I stoped buying there programs.

[LisaRCT]

WOW, I have been getting blasted with emails . . . . all spam and all with similar subjects, obviously from that worm.  Apparently alot of people must have gotten infected.
My SpamKiller has caught them so it has not been a problem on my machine, but I can imagine how this is clogging up traffic a bit.  

[NoCodeUK]

We have had over 2000 since things kicked off yesterday and our admin screens have been slooooooowwwwww.....

Adam