Sobig-F: ouch

Raymond Dijkxhoorn raymond at PROLOCATION.NET
Tue Aug 19 16:25:37 IST 2003


Hi!

>    Our site is really getting hammered by Sobig-F.  So many copies
> were coming in that MS/Sophos/Clamav were running the system load
> up on my mail server (a 4 cpu Sun V1280).  A couple of machines at
> MIT (nearby networkwise) were hitting us so hard that I had to block
> their connections with ipfilter.  1634+ sobigs so far this morning...
> Glad I have MailScanner!

Same here:

[root at vmx20 sysconfig]# grep Sobig.F /var/log/maillog | wc
   4652   44194  524675

[root at vmx10 sysconfig]# grep Sobig.F /var/log/maillog | wc
   4770   45315  536491

Bye,
Raymond.



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