OT Im being bombarded ..

[Antony Stone]

On Tuesday 19 August 2003 3:25 pm, Carl Boberg wrote:

> Hi,
> Im as of this moment being bombarded by the I-Worm.Sobig.f virus. (about
> 10-20 virusmails/min) This almost feel like a dos attack but it is way too
> lame thanks to MS :-) which is handling things most efficient.

I run a MailScanner with several anti-virus engines on it, in order to
compare performance and speed of updates.   At the moment I notice ClamAV,
F-Prot and AntiVir are all happily detecting the large numbers of Sobig.F I'm
getting, but McAfee still isn't noticing anything :(

Antony.

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