[registrars] Re: Your application

[Ross Wm. Rader]

On 8/19/2003 3:56 PM Michael D. Palage noted that:

> This is looking like a virus to me - second opinion anyone?

Its been going around all day - I've received 32 so far :)

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Title: 'Good' worm, new bug mean double trouble

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Two new threats on the Internet are creating so much traffic that some 
networks are slowing to a crawl, security experts say.

Source: 
http://rss.com.com/2100-1002_3-5065644.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news
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Title: W32.Sobig.F at mm Warning

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Chris Casciano let us know that he is getting hit  hard by this virus 
and its 70+KB payload. He also mentions the  email addresses he is 
seeing tossed in as the spoofed sender are very much skewed towards 
highly technical / web oriented addresses [zd,  webmonkey, uu.net, 
sybase, ms, netscape, etc.] so he suspects at least one of his close 
contacts/peers is infected (as opposed to completely  random windows 
users who picked up his email from looking at a website with his 
photos). So if you're on Windows, or come in contact with a Windows, 
PLEASE make sure its well patched, its virus definitions are updated & 
its otherwise well secure.

Info on the worm:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/ w32.sobig.f at mm.html
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100561.htm
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=100561 
   (Meryl)

Source: 
http://www.lockergnome.com/update/archives/week_2003_08_17.html#006707
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                        -rwr