What's Going on here?

[Raymond Dijkxhoorn]

Hi!

> > Indeed, they have sent me a sbf-dam.ide that doesn't appear to have
> > been publicly released (yet).  If anyone is interested, you can email me
> > and I'll send it along.  Also, I'm sure Sophos would be happy to send
> > it to anyone who asks.

> At the height of the Sobig.F storm one of my mail servers
> (MS/Sophos/Exim) let through 3000+ copies of what appeared to be
> Sobig.F-like messages without any attachment. If there is no attachment,
> can Sophos still detect it? I guess there must be some other virus-like
> signature within the message.

If theres no attachment its no virus, its just crap mail =) IMHO its not
to blame your virus scanner for that, but a content filter should take
care of that :) I think you could better call those 'SPAM' =)

Bye,
Raymond.