Sober

[Stephen Swaney]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Greg Deputy
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 11:51 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Sober
>
> I've not been having trouble with sober getting through, but have
> noticed a HUGE jump in viruses attempting to get through in the last 4
> days or so, majority of them being the sober virus.
>
> Anyone else noticing a spike in viruses?
>

If going from and average of 200-300 viruses per day to average of almost
2,000 per day is a spike, yes.

Just read that Sober traffic was 4.5% of all internet traffic yesterday :(

Steve

Steve Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
www.fsl.com
steve.swaney at fsl.com

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list
> > [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Martin Hepworth
> > Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 8:44 AM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: Sober
> >
> >
> > Only thing I've seem amongst the lists I'm on is that it
> > effects people who upgrade to 0.84.
> >
> > so.. make sure DatabaseDirectory is consistant in
> > freshclam.conf and clamd.cong..
> >
> > --
> > Martin Hepworth
> > Snr Systems Administrator
> > Solid State Logic
> > Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
> >
> >
> > Jim Coates wrote:
> > > I apparently am suffering from something with this virus as well.
> > >
> > > My MailScanner/ClamAV setup had been working wonderfully until just
> > > the last couple of days when all of the sudden the Sober virus has
> > > been managing to get its ZIP files past without any problem at all.
> > >
> > > I looked back through the messaged regarding Sober here on
> > the group,
> > > but didn't see anything definite about how to stop this from
> > > happening.
> > >
> > > Seems I've seen some people who have the problem and some who don't.
> > >
> > > Has anyone found a solution to getting this stopped?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Jim Coates
> > >

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