Virus Alert!

Probably a fake e-mail containing the virus.

Yeah, just don't open it. I sometimes get e-mails from addresses that I've never heard of. Must have got your address from a forwarded e-mail, or another website.

that ****ing Blaster kept out internet down for a whole night. good job i have some idea about computing because the software to get rid of it from Symantec was useless.

From todays Mirror;

THE world's worst computer virus brought chaos around the globe yesterday.

It spread like wildfire, sending networks crashing and threatening to virtually kill off the internet.

Experts fear it could eventually bring the system to a halt by swamping it with unwanted messages.

The virus - dubbed SoBig-F - is believed to have infected one in 17 of all emails within just 48 hours of its creation.

And it is believed other equally devastating viruses may already be on the way.

Internet giant AOL claims to have intercepted almost 12 million copies of the bug, which spreads by hijacking email address books.

And British-based watch-dogs Messagelab said email traffic could increase by 60per cent, slowing the internet to a crawl.

Chief information analyst Paul Wood said yesterday: "It's unprecedented. We stopped over one million infections in the first day."

He added: "It's a frightening statistic. And the next incarnation of the virus could be even worse." Sobig-F is believed to have started in America and has spread to 148 countries.

Graham Cluley of anti-virus firm Sophos said: "This will almost certainly become the worst virus of all time.

"It's effectively killing the internet by creating vast numbers of emails that clog everything up."

It slowed down, no more emails......

I'm just getting tons of those mails... I've already deleted over 20 and they still keep on coming... arrrgg.

I just got 3 of them. All senders had an e-mail-addy that has something with Bon Jovi and all of them had attachements.

So be careful.

same here

Holy God!! I had over 30 emails in the account I have listed here!! I erased all of them!

Just saw on BBC news that when the attachment is opened, not only does it send to all addresses in you address book, but it also sends to random addresses. That could prove what happened with you Jag.

Anyway, there's a lot about it on the BBC website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3173255.stm

At the moment, anti-virus experts do not know what could happen, but possibilities include launching another virus or spam attack, collecting sensitive information, or deleting files stored on an infected computer or network.

Not good