News SoBig Virus Returns

This from eWeek:

Welcome to the summer of the worm. Hard on the heels of the Blaster worm outbreak , yet another version of the resilient and ever-popular SoBig virus began spreading rapidly on the Internet Tuesday morning. Known as SoBig.F, the new variant behaves much like its older siblings, infecting Windows machines via e-mail and sending out dozens of copies of itself."

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Loads of systems were hit here with it. Fortunatly this one is much easier to remove than the Blaster...

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100561.htm - More info about the virus

http://download.nai.com/products/mcafee-avert/stinger.exe - standalone STINGER (finds recent virus's and removes)