Short of ensuring that your own system is clean, and recommending that your friends do the same, there's not much anyone can do about this nuisance.

Eventually, as computers around the world are disinfected, the random mails will stop.

Unitl the next bug, that is :--))

Have you tried Mailwasher?  It certainly keeps the stuff out of your system.  The latest version, 3.1, has an 'Import' facility which makes installing and configuring it a breeze.

Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Roberto Safora Romay 
  To: [log in to unmask] 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 1:46 AM
  Subject: [PCSOFT] sobig.f & false identities


  I´ve read in a forum that the virus SOBIG.f  takes two addreses from the PC
  infected. One goes to the field "to" and the other to the field "from". So
  every infected message is sent with a false sender.
  That would explain why I am recieving virus notifications from some friends
  and even from people that nor even are in my address book.
  Besides I am receiving 30 messages daily, infected with Sobig.F.
  I have installed Sobig.F  Stopper
  I´m afraid of being excluded fromm lists like this due to the false
  identities of the messages.
  I have my antivirus updated and seems to be clear I´m not infected.
  What could I do?

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