Affilliate virus

[Shane]

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Just had 2 emails with a virus in was the "W32.Sobig.F@mm"

the emails were on spoofed headers one was from IBG.co.uk and the other with an affiliate manager's name in the header, obviously they didn't send them, the virus usually takes email addresses and makes a sender email address up from the address book and then sends itself.

Just make sure your antivirus is up to date boys n girls cos someone in the affiliate arena is infected.

one tip if u are not antivirus enabled is to create an email address in your address book with no @ in it so it can't send.. you should get an "unable to send" message if u get infected and it mails everyone in your address book..altho it too late then lol..

[Marc Gear]

I'm getting about 3 or 4 a minute from various different affiliates/merchants/networks

:/

[John]

yup, I'm getting a load coming in too...

Make sure your AV's are all up to date!

[pistol101]

They do seem to stop pretty quickly, so i wouldn't panic. I'm not getting anymore.

[Marc Gear]

yours may have stopped but i'm still getting them from you :P

actually seems to have slowed down now - might have stopped

[Darren]

Same here, no viruses received in the past hour of two......I've counted approx. 120 infected emails received between 2pm and 3pm today

[pistol101]

Shame we couldn't get a few affiliate links posted in them!!

[John]

even the BBC's had them...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3164861.stm

[wwwb]

still coming in thick and fast here - if anything, its speeded up since 6pm!

[MarkyB]

Hi,
Yeah I've had around 120 so far today
Still coming in thick and fast after 6 !

mmmmm.........Now Pistol101 - There's an idea!!! ;-)

Mark.

[Darren]

I think I've worked out why I've had none since 3pm - my POP3 server is offline

I guess anyone who uses Xcalibre is in the same boat!

[ianm]

Yep I'm with Xcalibre and mine's been offline most of the afternoon.

[1st Stop]

none her perhaps cos im to small

[wwwb]

well, if you're feeling left out I can wing a few your way! *Joke!*

Size doesn't matter mate, honest...

[NaturalInstinct]

I got about 20 of these mails (mostly from pete ) but they seem to have stopped now.

Anyone else noticed a slowdown on BT broadband for most of today ?