Terri
08-23-2003, 06:51 AM
FBI tries to trace e-virus culprit
Washington Times
August 23, 2003
From combined dispatches
The FBI yesterday subpoenaed an Arizona Internet service provider to trace the culprit behind a fast-spreading e-mail virus.
Meanwhile, a feared Internet attack resulting from the virus fizzled yesterday, as security experts said they contained it by identifying and blocking computers key to coordinating it.
Instructions written into the latest version of the Sobig.F virus, which has caused enormous headaches since it began appearing Monday, called for infected Windows machines to try to download a program that, until the attack began at 3 p.m yesterday, had an unknown function.
More (http://www.washtimes.com/business/20030822-104312-5632r.htm)
There is a good explanation here of how this spreads and how it works in unprotected computers.
Washington Times
August 23, 2003
From combined dispatches
The FBI yesterday subpoenaed an Arizona Internet service provider to trace the culprit behind a fast-spreading e-mail virus.
Meanwhile, a feared Internet attack resulting from the virus fizzled yesterday, as security experts said they contained it by identifying and blocking computers key to coordinating it.
Instructions written into the latest version of the Sobig.F virus, which has caused enormous headaches since it began appearing Monday, called for infected Windows machines to try to download a program that, until the attack began at 3 p.m yesterday, had an unknown function.
More (http://www.washtimes.com/business/20030822-104312-5632r.htm)
There is a good explanation here of how this spreads and how it works in unprotected computers.