[Freeciv] Re: Virus warning: Sobig.F

["Lobo Gris" <molv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is this virus the cause of a terribly spam attack in my mailbox?
Since two or three days ago I'm receiving decens of messages, 100K of siz=
e
each one, that difficults to me downloading my mailbox, because I use a
slow dial-up connection. Some of this messages has in its From: field, th=
e
address of some of members of freeciv lists, or the adress of the same fr=
eeciv
list (freeciv-java, freeciv-dev, etc) I was planning to change my mailbox=
,
but if the origin is a virus in freeciv list, then I won't gain much.

>-- Mensaje original --
>Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 08:10:02 -0500
>From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: freeciv@xxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [Freeciv] Virus warning: Sobig.F
>
>
>Hello,
>
>If you are reading this message and run on Windows, please immediately
>obtain a up-to-date virus scanner and check your entire system for the
>Sobig.F virus.
>
>The mail server for the FreeCiv mailing lists has been innundated with
>copies of Sobig.F viruses.  The anti-virus software detected approximate=
ly
>700 of them in the past 9 hours -- a rate of more than one per minute --=

>and
>the vast majority are being sent to FreeCiv mailing list addresses.
>
>Fortunately, I can report that this has had no effect on the stability
of
>the mail server.  It's just a large pain.
>
>Thanks,
>John Goerzen
>